Seventy years ago, H. L. Mencken wrote, “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.”

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A New French Revolution

In the new issue of National Review, anticipating that the midterm wave about to wash over us is going to be both blue and walloping, Jim Geraghty writes, “It’s easy to imagine Democrats rubbing their hands with glee over the prospect of oversight hearings and investigations. But the second-term Trump administration is a world champion of noncompliance.” In other words, get ready for . . . ugly battles, messy results.

Will a Democratic House attempt to impeach Trump for a third time? Almost certainly. . . . Will a U.S. Senate convict him? Almost certainly not. For some stretch of 2027 or 2028, we will sit through another impeachment drama with a preordained ending. Trump will no doubt treat a third failure to convict in the Senate as another historic victory.

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