IMPEACHMENT: The Empire Strikes Back. “It is no accident or coincidence that the only three presidents who have fundamentally challenged the administrative state—and questioned its song sheet, the ‘U.S. government policy community consensus’—have been dogged by ‘scandal’ and threatened with impeachment: Richard Nixon by Watergate, Ronald Reagan by Iran Contra, and now Trump. (Whatever you think of Bill Clinton’s impeachment, it was emphatically not driven or supported by the administrative state, which protected him at every turn.) Trump would likely take this as small consolation, but it’s a measure of how much he’s feared that his enemies are running this play against him now, rather than simply trying to defeat him next year. Which more than suggests they doubt they can.”