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increase. The Democrats should learn from I do not like Donald Trump as a person or the mistakes of the Republicans, who made as a president. I think that he, like other themselves look foolish and petty when presidential candidates, should release his impeaching President Bill Clinton. tax returns. Instead, those of us who want to reduce But I oppose the state of California income inequality, who want to save the requiring candidates for president and planet, who want affordable health care, governor to submit copies of their tax who want criminal justice to be just, who returns from the last five years to the want to reduce wasteful military spending California secretary of state at least three and who want to have a foreign policy that months ahead of the state’s primary. This is a clearly a partisan, anti-Trump move. I also leads to a safer world, we need to reflect on why Trump has the support of nearly two oppose limiting candidates to those without out of five Americans. orange hair. Many of those same Americans who This kind of partisan maneuver is voted for Trump were willing to vote for a frivolous and a waste of time. If voters black president in 2008 and in 2012. Why? really want to elect a corrupt, self-serving Having lived in a small town in Ohio individual who refuses to provide that voted overwhelmingly for basic information to us, then the Obama as well as for Trump, voters have a constitutional I believe that those voters right to do just that. Our Going high means could support progressive constitution gives us candidates. But a failed many rights, including forgetting about impeachment attempt the right to make these impeaching our will not get their kinds of poor choices. law-breaking, corrupt, support. With a superInstead of having majority in the state self-serving impeachment hearings, Legislature, Democrats president. why not have congresnow have the ability to sional investigations into do stupid things that appeal why hedge fund operators pay to their political base, such the much lower capital gains tax as restricting who can run for instead of paying the higher tax rate that president. But they should not follow the wage earners pay? Or how cutbacks at the lead of Texas Republicans, who approved IRS have allowed rich people and corporahandgun registrations, but not student IDs, tions to routinely get away with tax fraud? as identification to vote. Or further investigation of the drug pricing In her 2016 Democratic convention practices of the pharmaceutical companies? speech, Michelle Obama said, “When they Or how large agribusiness companies are go low, we [Democrats] go high.” It is a unfairly slashing small farmers’ incomes? goal worth pursuing. Part of Trump’s appeal is that many Going high means forgetting about Americans believe that the system is impeaching our law-breaking, corrupt, selfrigged against them. And they are right. serving president. Sure, a case can be made What progressive Democrats need to do is for impeachment. But there is a correct way demonstrate that the Democrats represent to remove Donald Trump from office, and the 99% of Americans. □ that is to defeat him in the November 2020 election. Impeachment—which would never get a two-thirds vote necessary for conviction in the Republican Senate—is a waste Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority of time. And it adds to partisan polarization, owner of the News & Review. which we should be trying to reduce, not