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Drew Magary
I Am the Intolerant Left
Impeachment should only be the beginning. There’s no shame in being utterly intolerant of what Donald Trump and his party have inflicted upon the world.
I’m not ready to be happy yet. After dragging her heels to the point of exposing raw bone, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that the House would open up a formal investigation into impeaching President Trump, for the crime of…
[surveys a vast, sumptuous buffet of crimes committed by Trump, with the Ghost of Christmas Present sitting behind it and beaming with pride]
…urging the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his family and possibly withholding financial aid to that country unless said dirt was procured. I can’t believe it took three years and Trump wriggling out of roughly 500,000 other jams for us to get to the point where we can even BEGIN the process of impeaching him strictly for posterity. But that’s how utterly broken shit has become.
And so while I’m glad we somehow got the impeachment process a millimeter off the ground, I’m not exactly satisfied. I dunno why anyone else would be. I can’t tolerate Trump being president, nor the pitch-black shitscape he’s built around him, for one second longer.
I want Trump and his supporters shamed into oblivion, and that’s the NICEST consequence they deserve.
That’s right. I’m one of those people. I’m the guy who will judge you for a single bad tweet. I’m the guy who doesn’t even have to read the David Brooks column to immediately rule that it will be both wrong and insufferable. I’m the guy who has his conservative bullshit detector jacked all the way up like it’s a Geiger counter. “So much for the tolerant left” has become such a well-worn ironic Twitter joke that I’d just like to take a moment and acknowledge, without irony, that I really AM a member of the intolerant left. That’s me. I’m the one with an itchy canceling finger. I want Trump and his supporters shamed into oblivion, and that’s the NICEST consequence they deserve.
