2024 Impeachment
Discussion around the potential impeachment of Joe Biden is ramping up in many places. As has been stated before, impeachment is a political action. Obviously there should be valid reasons for engaging in such an action. However, at least three times in our nation’s history, it was just that, a political action.
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 was a battle between a Congress that had a supermajority in one party. That party did not like some of the things Johnson was doing. Specifically Johnson was for Lincoln’s approach to the re-integration of the South into the Union. That was a far easier process than congressional Republicans wanted to take.
The others that did not have a valid basis, that is high crimes and misdemeanors, were of PDJT. Those impeachments were all about the moneyed classes not liking that PDJT stood up for the majority of Americans. PDJT was curtailing the access to public money that many corporations were utilizing.