Ezra Klein Urges Impeachment of Trump: He’s the Wrong Person for the Job

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BARNICLE: "Ezra, prior toward any action toward impeachment, do you wonder as some of us do, why this particular president surrounded by so many people at an upper level who have devoted their lives to the country, to the service of the country, I'm talking about Generals Mattis and Kelly and McMaster why they have not stood up, one, as an individual or perhaps as a group to say enough is enough, we’re out of here unless you change, and do it publicly. But nobody has said anything. So the president now seems, even before talk of impeachment seems to be operating every day with no boundaries whatsoever."
KLEIN: "My sense of reporting on the White House is that they all believe that, if they leave, nothing will change except they will be replaced by people who are not as good at controlling Donald Trump. They feel a sense of duty, and a number of them, by the way have in their own sort of weird ways begun to rebuke him publicly. I mean, there was a very strange press conference, for instance that Kelly gave, who said I don’t respond to the president’s tweets. That’s not the policy we’re setting. We’re setting the policy, we're telling the president what he needs to know. Organizational dynamics are complex. And the way people slowly begin to rationalize terrible actions, because if they didn't then they would have to leave and if they left even worse things can happen. We have seen quite a few disasters in history end up that way. At some point even if the people who are handpicked to be around him are not going to abandon him, there is the rest of us, right? There’s Congress, there's voters, there's a country. And what public pressure is and how we think about it and how we talk about it, it actually matters. That’s why I called this argument the case for normalizing impeachment. Because I think it’s something we need to talk about, whether or not it is OK to impeach a president just for not being somebody who should be president, which is traditionally not a way we've thought about it. We've criminalized impeachment, we medicalized a 25th Amendment, but we don’t really have a language for saying, you know, we’ve hired the wrong person for a job. But in every other business, when you hire the wrong person for a job, you think about firing them."