Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Impeachment: Restore Entitled “Centrist” Ds and Rs to Power?

October 10, 2019

No question: today’s biggest unsolved problems came at the hands of the so-called centrists of both parties. Historian and author Professor Andrew Bacevich argues that while of course Trump must be removed, the constant focus of impeachment is a way not to talk about the failed performance of the establishment Democrats and Republicans; the Clintons and the Bushes. Impeachment, Bacevich speculates, may protect these elites from accountability for other more serious problems. Such as dismal foreign policy, horrendous wealth inequities, and protecting the powerful interests responsible for climate change. Nixon’s fall did not bring McGovern to power, it reaffirmed the power elite.