Barring a Tulsi Gabbard nomination, Trump will serve a second term. It’s astounding, in a way, given his general boorishness, that this will be so. It seems like it would be much harder to nominate a candidate that would lose to such a knucklehead, but the Democratic Party is well on its way to seeing its candidate get steamrolled in 2020. The only candidate that could conceivably win is Tulsi. Can you picture how quickly Trump would deflate once he begins attacking the personal character, or looks, of an active-duty member of the military, and veteran of the misbegotten Iraq war? Tulsi would trounce Trump with grace, and he would appear nothing more than a bumbling old fool, and America would marvel at how they could’ve elected such a bottom-dweller. Of course, he won by default. Hillary was a terrible candidate, and would’ve been a hideous President. How many wars would we be engaged in now, had she won?
Tulsi is more presidential as a candidate than all the inhabitants of that office of the past century. She would swat Trump like a fly, and be every bit the president that Obama should’ve been. Anti-war with a backbone.
I digress. The Trump impeachment scandal, complete with a “whistleblower” from inside the White House that turned out to be a CIA officer, who has now been conveniently deposited into “witness protection” so as to not reveal his identity, is doing nothing but ensuring his second term. Why? Because it is broadcasting the overt corruption of Biden and his dealings with Ukraine. Biden openly bragged about doing what Trump is now accused of doing, and most Americans see that, and realize that impeachment is a political Hail Mary. It’s even worse for Democratic candidates, who now have to answer uncomfortable questions about the whole affair. These candidates can’t afford to appear sympathetic to Trump, so, if asked, they must answer that Biden’s actions with Ukraine are no big deal. Nor is it a big deal that his son was handed a cushy “job” on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
It must have seemed clever to push for impeachment after such a conveniently-timed leak, but the facts that voters will care about will be the revelations of massive corruption that were the focus of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president. For all his faults, Trump will be seen as at least making a genuine attempt to get to the bottom of one instance of the commonplace corruption that has so outraged voters for so long, outrage that propelled him into office in the first place. It will do the same a second time.
