Every time I think that the Left really knows that Donald Trump didn’t collude with Russia to rig the 2016 election, and they’re just saying that to raise money from their nutty donors, something comes along that proves the Leftists are just as insane as they sound.  This week it was a Newsweek (are they still in business?) article from one Robert Reich, entitled If Trump is Guilty, His Presidency Must be Annulled.   For those of you who may have forgotten, Robert Reich was Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton (which is a compromising position, now that I think about it).  Reich currently is a professor at Berkeley, so I guess he comes by his insanity honestly.  I was hoping that Reich was an economist or political scientist, and not a lawyer, but no such luck, he actually went to Yale Law School with Bill and Hillary Clinton.  Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal was a student there at the same time, either before or after he lied about serving in Vietnam.  Clarence Thomas and Michael Medved were fellow students as well, but I’m betting Reich didn’t spend too much time talking to them.   Reich is a dedicated Trump hater.  In  September 2015, he published a book,  Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few,  in which he warned that widening inequality would generate a blue-collar backlash that could take the form of a demagogue who blames immigrants and minorities for the growing economic stresses felt by the working class.  I wonder who he had in mind?  The crux of Reich’s Newsweek article is that, if there’s overwhelming evidence that Trump rigged the 2016 election, then impeachment isn’t an adequate remedy.  His presidency should be annulled.  Annulment is a term familiar to those seeking to undo marriages, though I’ve never come across it in constitutional law, but I guess you have to commend Reich for thinking out of the box, or maybe recommend that Reich be locked up in a padded box.  The age old consideration of “if” has delighted philosophers for centuries.  If angels danced on the heads of pins, or if your aunt had balls she’d be your uncle, or if she had wheels, she’d be a bicycle.  Reich’s “if” isn’t as plausible as any of those subjects.  He might as well have posited that Trump’s presidency should be annulled if The Simpson’s show space aliens Kang and Kodos took over the bodies of the 2016 candidates and installed Trump/Kodos as President.

Reich “reasons,” “Suppose, just suppose that Robert Mueller finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Russian President Vladimir Putin to rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.” How Putin might have accomplished such a thing is unclear, especially given the fact that the Obama CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and State Department did conspire to rig the election for Hillary and even they couldn’t pull that off.  Then, Reich concludes, Trump would not be the President under the constitution.  I’m glad Reich has heard of the “C” word, although even he concedes the constitution doesn’t cover such an eventuality or mention annulment.  Reich says that Trump is a conman, entertainer, demagogue who will sow confusion, as he did in Helsinki (by daring to meet a Russian, when everyone knows he’s guilty), Charlottesville (by daring to suggest that there might be two sides to a story he did not create and wasn’t involved in) and by locking children in cages (Uh, Obama actually did that in 2014).  Reich disagrees with other anti-Trump dreamers, who hope that Mueller will turn up the smoking gun evidence that somehow has to date eluded investigators for 2 years, and those who await evidence of obstruction of justice.  (By acting within  presidential authority, on advice from Rod Rosenstein, the man who, as a result of the firing he suggested, appointed Mueller to destroy his presidency).  Reich says impeachment is not enough and it won’t work.  He has reasons – 1) No President has ever been removed, and Republicans, who he says have the integrity of lizards, will not remove him.  (Unlike Democrats, if evidence of wrongdoing existed, Trump would be impeached by Republicans).   2)  Fox News, and the rest of the “right wing sleaze media,” would distort and cover up the evidence. (How?  Oh, maybe the way every news outlet other than Fox has done just that with all the positive achievements of the Trump Administration, and all of the evidence of the nefarious plot to depose Trump carried out by the Democrats).    3)  Trump will never resign.  He will lie and, like Nixon, will claim a conspiracy to remove him.  (I don’t remember Nixon ever claiming anything other than “I am not a crook.”  The only comparison between the two is that, not only is Donald Trump not a crook, this time there isn’t even a crime).   Reich argues that, for these reasons, Trump won’t be impeached and will probably win in 2020. (Well, we can agree on something).   I guess Reich thinks Mueller will still be investigating after 2020.  Then again, he might be right about that.  And if he loses in 2020, Reich says he’ll refuse to leave and will have to be carried out of the White House.  (Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real disease).  Anyhow, says Reich, impeachment will only leave Mike Pence to do Trump’s dirty work.  (There goes that damn Constitution again).  But, there’s another option, which even the demented Professor Reich admits is unlikely, but somehow believes is “entirely possible.”  Here it comes  –  Even if all parties agree Trump must go, then a simple impeachment isn’t enough.  Annulment would repeal all of Trump’s appointments, actions and records.  They used to do that in Ancient Rome.  After a leader was deposed, they would cut the heads off all his statues, and throw them in the Tiber.  “The constitution doesn’t specifically provide for annulment, but read as a whole the constitution leads to the logical conclusion that annulment is the appropriate remedy.”  Uh huh.  After that suggestion, I don’t think the Professor should be arguing logic.  All this may sound funny.  It isn’t.  Reich and the loony Leftists really believe this crap.  Pray for the Red Wave.