Andrew Sullivan writes what liberals won't admit

What We Know About Trump Going Into 2020
(alternate title: Yes, we need to undo the 2016 election)

It is this profound immorality that made this week inevitable. Yes, inevitable. Put a man of this sort — utterly unprepared, utterly corrupt, and with no political or governing experience at all — into the Oval Office, and impeachment, if there is any life left in our democracy, is inevitable.

The impeachment was inevitable because this president is so profoundly and uniquely unfit for the office he holds, so contemptuous of the constitutional democracy he took an oath to defend, and so corrupt in his core character that a crisis in the conflict between him and the rule of law was simply a matter of time.

Sullivan is basically admitting that this was always about undoing the 2016 election. Americans got it wrong according to Sullivan because they elected a man who should have never been President. Sullivan has believed from the very start that Trump should be removed. Not because of anything that would generally have qualified for impeachment, but because in his mind Trump is inherently bad and any excuse will do.

The two core lessons of the past few years are therefore: (1) Trumpism has a real base of support in the country with needs that must be addressed, and (2) Donald Trump is incapable doing it and is such an unstable, malignant, destructive narcissist that he threatens our entire system of government.

Moreover, in Sullivan's world the idea that Trump is President isn't the only problem. The other problem (that he believes needs to be addressed) is that there is an actual base of support for Trump. Sullivan is literally demanding that nobody in this country be allowed to even support Trump. That not only do liberals somehow need to impeach and remove the President, but they need to impeach and remove his supporters too. This is literal madness.

Yes, some partisan Democrats were out to destroy him from the very beginning and have merely been seeking a pretext ever since. Yes, some have overreached in their Russia fixation. And I’m not going to deny the troubling facts outlined in the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s dangerously sloppy FISA requests when the Russia question first emerged in summer 2016. These are parts of the truth that demand inquiry and reflection. But they are largely irrelevant to the question in front of us.

The odd part about this statement is that Sullivan writes as if Trump needed to be impeached from the start, and then suggests that there are some "partisan" Democrats out to destroy him from the beginning. He makes a weak case that Ukraine was the straw that broke the back so to speak, but it's difficult to reconcile this argument with the main underlying theme of this article. Unless Sullivan is willing to admit that he is part of those willing to bring him down from the start, then his own TDS has altered his self reflection to the point where he doesn't recognize the blatant inconsistencies (not over time) but within this particular article.

Moreover, the very concept that people want to impeach Trump the day he started is actually quite a problem. It runs fundamentally counter to how our country and how Democracy works. What Sullivan is implying (with regards to Trump and his supporters) is extremely dangerous. The long term consequences to simply not accepting election results far outweighs any comfort these people feel from a irrelevant and impotent attempt to remove the President.

Meanwhile, there is now actual proof that people within our own government were breaking the law in order to justify a intelligence and criminal investigation into Trump and anyone associated with him.  Law enforcement did this largely without due cause or due process and most certainly without proper due cause or due process. This also matters. We all need to recognize that this impeachment has nothing to do with Ukraine or Biden, but rather it IS just a pretense to set in motion the very actions that liberals (including those in our own government) wanted to do from day one.

Sullivan is standing on the ledge here and is ready to jump into the entire concept of starting a figurative war with those who disagree with him (addressing them as he suggest). Obviously he is not the only one who holds these paranoid, creepy, and extremely dangerous views. But at least he is willing to admit the underlying view.