The first impeachment of Donald Trump was absurd, but that time at least he was president and subject to impeachment.  This time he’s not, and he’s not.  Impeachment has two purposes; to remove the subject of the exercise, and prevent the subject from ever returning.  As noted, Donald Trump isn’t in office, so he’s not subject to impeachment.  This minor impediment is lost on Democrats.  They’ve embarked upon an impeachment – of the truth.  I say Democrats, but I mean the political Establishment, which resides in both Parties.  In its zeal to consolidate its power, destroy all opposition, and ensure perpetual control of the government, the Establishment seeks to remove the truth and guarantee that it will never return to endanger its absolute hegemony.  There was a time, not so very long ago, when I would have said it wasn’t possible to impeach the truth.  There were guardrails.  The Founders gave us checks and balances.  The different branches would work to make sure one didn’t usurp the authority of another.  The guardrails are gone.  The Executive signs decrees that usurp the Legislative branch.  The Legislative branch threatens the Executive.  The Judiciary says, just leave us out of this.  And the administrative State, an entity never imagined by the Founders, lurks in the background constantly gnawing away at our liberties.  The States were supposed to be ultimate check and balance.   The Leviathan of the Establishment began chipping away at the States more than 100 years ago.  Having created the federal government, the States were supposed to exercise control over it through the Senate, whose members were selected by the State legislatures.  The 17th Amendment changed all that.  Popular election of Senators was sold as a means of checking the power of Party bosses.  Instead it simply turned the Senate into nothing more than a superfluous, super House of Representatives, peopled by the rich.  As a result, governments have no interest in protecting the truth.  Formerly, the media was always there to keep government (mostly) honest.  H.L. Mencken typified the way the media used to view government.  “The government I live under has been my enemy all my active life.  When it has not been engaged in silencing me it has been engaged in robbing me.  So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security.”  Thus, the media protected the truth, at least for its own sake.  Now they’re just cheerleaders for the despots of their choice.  When all else failed we always had the people.  They were smart,  knew the truth, and when lied to, could blow the whistle on the lying politicians.  But that’s gone too.  The truth has been impeached.  Truth is no longer what really happened.  It’s become what our government, media and online masters tell us really happened.  And don’t you dare disagree, or they’ll cancel you.  Trump’s being impeached for daring to suggest there was a secret plan to prevent him from being reelected.  These are the outrageous ravings of an autocrat, out to destroy democracy, right?  Not so fast.  Time magazine has spilled the beans.  In its story, The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election, Time exposed what it calls “the conspiracy to save the 2020 election.”  “The story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster.”  Time exposed a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.  Not to rig the election, of course, but to fortify it.  On December 2nd, Trump complained of “an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”  Amazingly, Time admits, “In a way, Trump was right.”  There was a conspiracy behind the scenes, an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans, inspired by the summer’s massive, destructive racial-justice protests,  which the labor unions and industrialists somehow saw as a way to oppose what they perceived as Trump’s “assault on democracy.” Time calls it a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated to ensuring a fair vote.  The conspirators got States to change voting systems and laws (illegally) with the help of hundreds of millions in public and private funding.  “They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.” Translation – They cancelled our First Amendment right to free speech.  For our own good, of course.  They had no choice, because Trump dared to file election lawsuits.  Obama Administration lawyer Norm Eisen told Time, “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation.”  You get the mindset?  The Left are saviors for changing State election procedures in violation of the Constitution.  Meanwhile, Trump is an autocrat and a tyrant for taking his cases to courts.  The Left are “democracy defenders,”who once again will save democracy by destroying the Constitution.  Again, they had no choice.  They couldn’t get a fair election under the Constitution and State laws, and it’s all Trump’s fault.  The impeached truth is that no president controls State elections. That was the beauty of the system, but they couldn’t win under the law, so they secretly changed the rules.  To save us from what?  The president of our choice?  By impeaching the truth, we’ve entered a new reality.  In this altered state, 7 Trump executive orders in the first month of his administration make him a tyrant, and 17 Biden executive orders on his first day make him a healer.  The president who lowered taxes, reduced energy prices, and created unprecedented job opportunities for minorities is a racist, while the president who promises higher taxes, higher fuel prices, and who kills jobs is the great emancipator.  In this shadow world, people who try to protect their rights by going to court are destroying democracy, while those who violate laws, ignore the Constitution and trample the right to free speech are protecting it.  And having impeached the truth and prevented it from coming back, a president who told supporters to “fight like hell” and to “peacefully make your voices heard” committed insurrection, while Democrats who incited agitators to physically attack Trump staffers and supporters, who condoned riots that burned police stations, looted cities, injured police officers, and killed people are patriots.  It’s truly Orwellian, so I’ll end with a quote from George Orwell, “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”  Viva la revelucion.