NEW YORK ¨C Some Republicans see the Ukraine/Biden impeachment inquiry as a deep-state coup attempt against U.S. President Donald Trump. Some progressives are beginning to scratch the surface of an alternative, but equally cynical, analysis that I think leftists ought to consider: The impeachment of Trump is a DNC/centrist coup attempt against progressives inside the Democratic Party.
Democrats could have launched impeachment proceedings over any number of more compelling issues: Trump¡¯s child separation policy at the border, the Muslim travel ban, emoluments, the president¡¯s erratic behavior on social media. Why the Ukraine/Biden affair?
The House inquiry is hardly ideal from a framing perspective. The only conceivable reason that the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma hired U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden¡¯s screw-up drug addict alcoholic son, with zero experience in the energy sector, to sit on its board of directors for $50,000 a month was that he was the vice president¡¯s son. The political website Vox notes that ¡°the situation constituted the kind of conflict of interest that was normally considered inappropriate in Washington.¡± Pre-impeachment, no one knew about this sleaze.
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