Opinion: The best way to get rid of Trump? Beat him at the ballot box.
By Richard Cohen Richard Cohen Columnist focusing on politics Email Bio Columnist March 25 at 5:30 PM My nightmare was not that President Trump would be exonerated by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, but that instead he would be accused of colluding with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election. That would set the Democrats on the meandering path toward impeachment and, by so doing, vindicate the Trumpian fantasy that the so-called deep state was mounting a coup.
The party has candidates such as former representative Beto O’Rourke , a cross between James Dean and Archie Andrews, whose idea of leading is merely to listen. Does he have something to say? If not, why is he running? If the campaign is such a hardship on his kids, he ought to just stay home. O’Rourke would rewrite Marc Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, let me listen to you.
Robert Dallek begins a section of his superb biography of John F. Kennedy, “An Unfinished Life,” with three quotes. The first is President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous one about the “bully pulpit.” Trump uses his to belittle his critics and spread misinformation.
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