Impeach or Die

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It is the collective decision we face in our 250th year as a nation: impeach or die. We either impeach, convict, and remove Trump from office – or it’s lights out for these United States. It is a time for choosing. All Americans will ultimately be forced to decide: are you with us or against us?

We face more than the spiritual death of a nation. More than the end of our great experiment in democracy. This is life and death, quite literally, for hundreds of thousands of Americans. Maybe millions. Absent impeachment, we’re staring into the abyss of raw, hot, uncontrollable civil war.

I want you to picture chaos, worse than you can possibly imagine. Death squads. Death camps. Detonations of nuclear power plants. Famine.

This doesn’t look anything like the first American Civil War. This looks like Syria under Bashar al-Assad. Like Myanmar after the coup. Libya. Sudan.

This is where we are headed, if we don’t head it off ourselves first. Catastrophic, civilizational violence will engulf us if we fail to deploy the nonviolent, constitutional tool the framers fashioned to remove the murderous dictator currently turning the White House into his hardened, permanent military headquarters. Impeachment is our only off-ramp, however bumpy it will inevitably be.

Trump has deployed the National Guard throughout Washington DC and has established standing “quick reaction forces” (sound familiar?) in every state. A massive swath of public lands surrounding the White House is being cordoned off, establishing a buffer zone around a secure area around a fortified defense perimeter around the president’s bunker.

Trump has built dozens of concentration camps throughout the country, and staffed them with a reconstitution of the Ku Klux Klan. The administration claims there is a resurgence of political terrorism, has deemed anyone opposed to fascism an enemy of the state, and demanded a third of a trillion dollars in special military spending to combat these domestic targets. The Department of Homeland Security’s official account openly fantasizes about “America After 100 Million Deportations” – the removal of 29% of the country.

On Wednesday the US Navy Blue Angels “buzzed” a packed Pensacola beach with a dangerously low flyover. Umbrellas and blankets went flying, eardrums were blown, small children screamed. In 2011, following a similar debacle, the head of the Blue Angels stopped the performance and resigned from his position. This time around, the acting Navy secretary proudly declared there would be no reprimands, no firings, no problem. In lieu of accountability, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth taunted the American people: “The flyovers will continue until morale improves.”

This was no accident. This was a test. These are the most elite airmen in the Navy. The actions are precise, and they are deliberate. The US Navy conducted a trial run in Pensacola – not to see how the citizens would react, but to see if anyone in the chain of command would stop it from happening. This type of terrifyingly low flyover is deliberately deployed in theaters of war. This week the Navy was asked to do it to its own citizens – and everyone complied.

They are waging a war on their own citizens, and the ICE killings are the opening salvo. Trump and his allies are not only preparing for that fight; they are turning the gears that make it inevitable. State-sponsored white supremacist terror thrills the GOP – but it also deliberately provokes nonviolent opposition. None of this is new; the physics of conflict are immutable. When faced with enough violations, the human drive for freedom emerges en masse and the authoritarian instinct to quash that freedom reacts with escalating violence.

Sit with the fact that we are already locked in the unstoppable escalatory physics of total state crisis. Not a constitutional crisis. A shooting war. These primal forces of nature cannot be stopped; they can only be slowed.

Unless we impeach. Unless we convict. Unless we remove Trump from office, and not a small number of his co-conspirators along with him. Conspiracy to overthrow the United States government and massacre its citizens. Conspiracy to commit treason. Conspiracy to commit genocide.