You made some good points. Most of my grief with Grant is the corruption in his administration. He himself was not a part of that nor were those policies he personally directed poorly chosen, as your examples illustrate.

We agree that Trump has no legislative agenda. I am simply appalled that nobody on the administration can get something so inherently bipartisan as the infrastructure stuff off the ground. He could have had his admin steer some decent items out there -- items that would make opposition look bad if they blocked him -- and has not done so.

His foreign policy isn't all that coherent either. Very much reactive so far, and this despite a clear kernel of support for renegotiating trade deals which SHOULD be at least vaguely in his area of competence.


I just cannot see "high crimes and misdemeanors" here. We have not used impeachment to overturn a national election unless it has truly reached a clearly criminal level on matters pertaining to the conduct of the office. Nixon rose to that level by personally involving himself in a cover-up of a crime perpetrated against political opponents. I do not believe we should overturn an election for lesser grounds (and the articles of impeachment against Johnson and Clinton were rightly quashed for that reason). In fact, the House's vote to impeach Clinton was stupid if they were not willing to assert that he had harried political opponents or the like (and he had not, it was all over civil matters).