Every magician knows the secret: get the audience watching one hand while the other does the real work. Last Thursday on ABC News Live, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries put on a masterclass in political misdirection – and honestly, the trick wasn’t even that good.
With midterms days away and Democrats poised to reclaim the House, Jeffries came armed with a single talking point: affordability. The American people are struggling, he insisted. Democrats have earned a “trust advantage” – though he never quite explained with whom. They’re going to “relentlessly push” to end the affordability crisis. It was polished, it was disciplined, and it was almost convincing.
Almost – because ABC’s Jay O’Brien kept asking the one question Jeffries clearly didn’t want to answer. What about impeachment? Some of your members have been talking about it openly. Is that what voters want? You could practically hear the man’s teeth clench.
Jeffries dodged with practiced ease. He hasn’t heard “a lot of talk about impeachment” from House Democrats, he claimed. What they’ve discussed is “accountability more broadly defined.” I’d love someone to explain what that means in plain English – because it sure sounds like impeachment wearing a fake mustache. But when O’Brien pressed on whether impeachment would distract from their agenda, the mask slipped entirely:
From Breitbart:
When asked whether impeachment would be a distraction from Democrats’ agenda, Jeffries replied: “Well, we haven’t ruled anything in, and we haven’t ruled anything out, because we’ve made clear that we’re focused on addressing the affordability crisis.”
Read that again. That is not a denial. That is a permission slip written in advance for the moment Democrats have the votes.
A party at war with itself
Here’s what makes Jeffries’ tightrope act so revealing: his own party can’t agree on the plan. Sherrod Brown, running for the vacant Senate seat in Ohio, said flatly: “I would not support an impeachment of Trump. There’s just simply no reason for that.” Jamie Raskin, who’d chair the judiciary committee, admitted impeachment is “not a panacea.” Even a Democratic Socialist candidate in New York questioned whether impeachment is “actually going to be meaningful accountability,” noting it might be exactly what Trump wants.
And the numbers are damning. The two sitting House Democrats who actually filed articles of impeachment against Trump this term – Al Green of Texas and Shri Thanedar of Michigan – both lost their primaries. Their own voters threw them out. Let that sink in.
Meanwhile, Matt Bennett of the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way offered this gem: “Trump commits five impeachable offences before breakfast every morning.” He then immediately called impeaching him “a bad idea.” And these are the moderates?
Same show, third curtain call
I’ll say what every conservative reading this already knows: we’ve seen this before. Twice. Trump survived both impeachments and came out stronger each time. No president in American history has ever been removed through this process. Not once.
Democrats say “affordability.” They mean retribution. They can’t help themselves – even when their own strategists, their own candidates, and their own voters are begging them to stop.
The magician’s trick only works when the audience hasn’t seen the show. We have. We’ll be at the polls next Tuesday. And we’re not clapping.
Key Takeaways
- Jeffries refuses to rule out a third Trump impeachment despite voter disinterest.
- Democrats who filed impeachment articles both lost their own primary elections.
- The “affordability” messaging is a smokescreen for political retribution.
- Even centrist Democrats admit impeachment is a losing strategy.
