John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. Find him @editorialboard.bsky.social .
There’s more than one way to hold a president accountable.
I have been reading Ed Kilgore since he was blogging for the Washington Monthly. With amazing consistency, Ed is sensible, sober, well-reasoned, stubborn (gracefully) and deeply moral. So when someone I respect as much as Ed calls on us to consider the moral consequences of a second Trump term, as a result of potentially blowing…
Ian Millhiser says it doesn’t give us a way to get rid of bad presidents. Impeachment? No. He calls that “a paper tiger”: There should be a way to remove a criminal president from office, but the impeachment power ain’t it. The power of impeachment is a paper tiger, largely unused throughout American history, and…
If nothing matters but power, Trump can do no wrong.
Below is the Times’ Maggie Haberman. She tweeted this yesterday. She’s defending an earlier tweet (see the screenshot) in which she agreed with her Times colleague Adam Goldman that yesterday’s Mueller hearing didn’t reveal anything new and therefore had very little worth paying attention to. Fact: Mueller said Trump could be charged with crimes after…
They are driving me crazy. Maybe it’s a short drive. The Post’s Aaron Blakehttps://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1154046500126593024?s=20 The Times’ Glenn Thrushhttps://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1154046909092265984?s=20 The Times’ Trip Gabriel, Maggie Haberman and Adam Goldmanhttps://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1154047515366326272?s=20 The Times’ Peter Bakerhttps://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1154047722653138944?s=20 Add to this list. —JS
The case against Donald Trump won’t fade after he testifies.
Everyone is talking about Robert Mueller’s testimony tomorrow. Here are few thoughts. Mueller is going to tell us what he’s already told us. It’s important for people to see that on TV. GOP says if Mueller doesn’t have anything new, Trump’s in the clear. That’s nonsense. Did the Dems wait too long? I don’t think…
Never-Trumpers are paving the way for a revival of liberalism.
Tim Wise wrote this Twitter thread over the weekend. It influenced today’s edition of the Editorial Board. He related his experience campaigning against David Duke’s bid for Louisiana governor. He said the key was treating Duke as a threat to democracy, not as anything close to a normal candidate. Not long after Trump took office,…