Why Impeachment Will Stay Partisan – WSJ

Quid pro quo has become this year s if it doesn t fit, you must acquit. But it doesn t follow. The Constitution and voters both give the president broad leeway to make foreign policy. For this reason, it is hard to delegitimize Mr. Trump because he doesn t care as much about a given Ukrainian government s struggles as some of his officials do, or that he puts a higher priority on eliciting Kyiv s cooperation in investigations of a previous U.S. administration, or that he pursues these goals with his own agents outside normal (i.e., Trump-unfriendly) channels. Consider the lazy and oxymoronic conflation that you see everywhere accusing him of using foreign policy to advance his personal political interests. What president doesn t?

Mr. Trump s Ukraine actions are not illegal, and I doubt the sacredness of Ukraine policy matters to many Americans. But any reason is good enough if you believe an incompetent president should be removed for the sake of the country.

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Holman Jenkins, right as usual.