To the extent that they can, it is absolutely critical in light of the total subservience to Trump of Congressional Republicans that the Democrats make good use of the conservative and evangelical voices that have spoken in support of Trump’s impeachment. This is their only opportunity to show that this not a partisan effort but rather a principled one.
The recent op-ed pieces in “The American Conservative” and “Christianity Today” are a strong indictment of Trump. Their readership may not be huge, but these are legitimate, well-respected publications. There was also an op-ed piece in The New York Times written by a group of Republicans that have formed an organization, the Lincoln Project, dedicated to defeating Trump in 2020. These expressions of conscience are all the more powerful because they know the disdain that they will be treated by most of their colleagues.
The Democratic leadership should hold a press conference together with these groups to press the point that this is not a partisan endeavor. It may certainly be true that most Democrats have had it in for Trump from the beginning. But that is not because he is a Republican, it is because he is in so many ways unfit to be President and has shown a lack of respect for his office and for the institutions of our democracy on an almost daily basis. That is not partisanship, that is principle.
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