I cast my first ballot for Jimmy Carter in 1976, and I take pride in saying I haven’t missed an election since. Tuesday marked my 13th midterm. I never paid much attention to most of them. This one kept me watching. A blue wave swept across the country and reached places Democrats had long struggled to win. In Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms won the governor’s race.
In Texas, Gina Hinojosa won the governorship, and Democrats took control of the state House. In Washington, voters handed Democrats both chambers of Congress. To my eye, it was a sweeping repudiation of Donald Trump and his MAGA politics. I believe Trump has become an embarrassment to this country. I’ve watched him lie to the American people and behave like a man who thinks the presidency entitles him to rule by decree. Meanwhile, Americans are paying for a war with Iran that Congress ought to be doing everything in its power to end. If ever there was a president who deserved to face impeachment, in my judgment, it’s Donald J. Trump.
The incoming Democratic House has the votes to impeach him if its members stick together. Impeachment is the House bringing formal charges. The Senate then holds a trial, and conviction requires two-thirds of the senators present. If all 100 are there and the Democratic side ends up with 54 seats, it would take 13 additional votes. No American president has ever been removed through that process. I suspect some Republicans are ready to break with Trump after Tuesday’s losses. Whether 13 would vote to remove him is another question.
But the longer I think about Tuesday’s results, the more I wonder what Democrats will do with the power voters just handed them. If Chuck Schumer the Zionist with his Isreal first agenda, takes over as Senate majority leader, will he push to end U.S. military operations against Iran? If Hakeem Jeffries who has taken million in campaign contribution from APAC becomes speaker, will he use the power of the House to put conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel over the devastation in Gaza? Both men will have the power to demand answers. I want to see what they’re willing to do when the answers are inconvenient.
For the first time in 13 midterms, I stayed up wondering what Congress might finally do with its power. Now I want to see whether the people who asked for our votes are willing to use theirs to make America great.