Clifford Orwin is professor of political science, fellow of St. Michael’s College and senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto.
If any Republican still needed proof that this emperor has no clothes, his decision to abandon the Kurds supplied it. We still don’t know why he did it – whether it was from gutlessness, witlessness, or just fecklessness – but when tinhorn dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan bluffed, Mr. Trump folded.
You may doubt whether any foreign-policy decision, however harmful and disgraceful, can be cast as an impeachable offense. No such reservation applies, however, to the flim-flam around a phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about investigating a political opponent’s son. It was a clearly illegal attempt to strong-arm a fragile foreign power into helping Mr. Trump win the next election; a career diplomat of impeccable reputation has been among several to attest to it.
It’s not as if most congressional Republicans like or admire Mr. Trump. They have already gotten most of what they wanted from him: the tax reform so friendly to their donors, a drastic reduction of economic and environmental regulation and control of the federal judiciary including the Supreme Court. With the Democrats now running Congress, Mr. Trump is a goose from which no more golden eggs can be expected – only a loss in 2020 that will drag many other Republicans down with him.
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