
Rep. Jason Crow, Democrat from Colorado, went on a Sunday news show this weekend and said something his party's consultants probably wish he hadn't. He told the audience that Democrats "won't hesitate" to impeach President Trump if they retake Congress in the midterms.
Think about what Crow actually revealed here. With midterm elections approaching and voters dealing with grocery prices, energy costs, and a border that spent years as a revolving door, a sitting United States congressman went on national television and announced that his party's top priority — the thing they won't hesitate to do — is remove the president that Americans elected with both the popular and electoral vote.
No infrastructure plan. No education reform. No proposal to bring down the cost of anything. Just impeachment. Again.
This isn't new territory for Democrats. They've already run impeachment proceedings against Trump before. The first time was supposed to be the silver bullet. It wasn't. The second time was supposed to finish the job. It didn't. And now, according to Crow, the plan is to try it a third time — presumably hoping the country forgot how the first two went.
The statement is remarkable for its honesty. Politicians usually at least pretend to have a governing agenda. They'll talk about kitchen-table issues in public and save the partisan warfare for closed-door fundraisers. Crow skipped the pretense entirely. He went straight to the red meat and didn't even bother wrapping it in policy language.
The left will frame this as "accountability" — their preferred euphemism for using congressional power to overturn election results they don't like. But accountability for what, exactly? Crow didn't name a specific high crime. He didn't cite a particular misdemeanor. He just promised the mechanism. The charge, apparently, is TBD.
That's the part that should concern anyone paying attention. When a party announces the punishment before identifying the offense, the point was never justice. The point is the process itself — the hearings, the cable news coverage, the fundraising emails, the paralysis of the executive branch. It's not a constitutional remedy. It's a campaign strategy dressed up in constitutional language.
Meanwhile, voters heading into November are making decisions about which party has a plan for the problems they actually deal with every day. Gas prices. Grocery bills. Whether their kids' school is teaching math or ideology. Border security. Crime in their neighborhoods.
Democrats had months to build a midterm message around any of those issues. They could have proposed solutions. They could have at least pretended to have proposals. Instead, Jason Crow went on television and told the country exactly what his party plans to do with power if they get it back.
The grocery bill stays the same. The border stays open. But the impeachment hearings will be spectacular.


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