As the impeachment of tRump moves forward in the House of Representatives, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the only result of the inquiry will be a further dividing of the country. There is zero chance of the Senate voting to remove the lying demagogue from office, no matter what additional “high crimes” he’s committed are discovered. There is only one way to remove this bum from office: Vote him out.
To accomplish this feat (and no one should fool themselves into believing that his base is going to abandon the sitting president no matter how many crimes he has committed), Democrats are going to be required to run a near-flawless campaign, leaving as little as possible to chance.
In the 2016 election, too many black Democrats who turned out for Obama in the two previous elections stayed home — seven million of them by most estimates. If the blacks that supported Obama had turned out for Clinton she would have easily won the White House. With the white electorate being almost evenly divided, blacks carry the balance of power. The trick is, how can more blacks be convinced to get out and vote in 2020?
One way would be to put one of two wildly popular black women on the Democratic ticket as vice-president. I’m talking about either Michele Obama or Oprah Winfrey. This is by far the best method of assuring that blacks get to the polls.
I know that when the subject of running for office is posed to either of them they demure; it’s not something they care to do and I can appreciate their feelings. But we’re at a critical juncture in this American experiment in democracy, and while I can sympathize with and respect their positions, one or the other of them is going to have to bite the bullet and do what’s best for the Republic. It’s the only patriotic thing to do. They can flip a coin to see which one of them steps up to the plate.
The fact is, no one can force either of them to serve the four-year term once elected. A month after they take the oath of office they could easily say the grueling race took too much out of them mentally and physically, and their doctors are insisting it would be best if they resign. But the mission would have been accomplished, tRump would be long gone.
I would go so far as to say one or the other of them has an obligation — a duty — to the citizenry of the United States to run since either of their names on the ticket would all but guarantee a Democratic victory.
Flip the coin.
From CoolCleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author at http://NeighborhoodSolutionsInc.