Impeachment was on the Family Table this Thanksgiving
- patricklewisbaker
- Dec 1, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 21
Thanksgiving is over and, predictably, impeachment couldn’t be kept off the table. We tried to avoid the dish, we really did. But in my family of Philadelphia-area suburbanites, the very demographic that may decide the 2020 presidential election, the hunger to see where everybody stood couldn’t be denied. We are all college-educated, a few of us inclined to wokeness, some members of white-collar unions and therefore left of center, others more concerned with our stock portfolios. Only one beloved aunt was willing to declare her full support for President Trump. The rest had more or less been successfully fed the New York Times’ version of events.
There was a widespread belief that the phrase quid pro quo was the name of a type of felony. Roughly the same family members believed this who last Thanksgiving had believed “collusion” was a criminal act…