Jonah Goldberg

Congress is the supreme branch.

The the whole concept of co-equal branches is Nixonian propaganda not sustained by any of the founding fathers.

But I also think it's very possible Democrats wildly overreach with impeachment stuff, which is not to say I think he's done a half dozen things that are legitimately impeachable or worthy of impeachment.

But if you don't have your ducks in a row, if you seem like you're just doing it to get on cable news or, you know, small donations and not doing it seriously and doing the proper legwork on investigations, it could backfire on Democrats.

And I could also see Trump using all of that stuff as a pretext to just simply truly defy Congress in ways that we've never seen a president do before.

And you could see you can see a much worse erosion of things.

I just I just don't know how it would play out.

But like it would be I think it would still be better for the republic if Democrats at least took back one of the branches.

So I think you described this schism pretty well.

The way I've been saying it is, you know, like, you know how like there's this safe harbor for conservatives where they're not pro-Trump, they're just anti-anti-Trump, which is a throwback to being anti-anti-communist.

It's like a lot of liberals were like, I don't like the Soviet Union, but I really hate the McCarthyites.

So like, I don't like the anti-communist people.

There are a lot of people on the right who have fallen back into being anti-anti-Trump because they don't like the resistance types.

I see Vance as basically the titular leader of the anti-anti-Nazi crowd.

It's not so much that he's a Nazi.

I don't think he is.

He just thinks part of his political interest is covered by defending people who are either Nazis or Nazi adjacent or want to have a big tent that allows Nazis in it.

Or neo-Nazis or bigots, whatever.

We can get down a little.

There are many rooms in the mansion of bat-guano-crazy-bigoted right-wingery.