'Trump impeachment' and 'massive nuclear proliferation' likely: conservative journalist

On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump delivered a national address in which he attempted to alleviate fears about the war in Iran and the struggling economy. He was never going to convince his political opponents on the left, but judging by reactions, he may too have lost support on the right as well.

According to Scott McConnell, journalist and co-founder of the American Conservative, “Trump’s rambling Iran address was full of wishful thinking.”

McConnell attached the statement to an article from the conservative magazine the Spectator, which he says makes a compelling case for “things likely in the future: 'Trump impeachment, massive nuclear proliferation.'"

In the Spectator piece, the author Jacob Heilbrunn declared that “Trump could not have been clearer about the course of the Iran war. It’s not ending any time soon and there will be no deescalation of military force.”

Heilbrunn pointed out that Trump’s remark about bombing Iran “back to the stone age” was drawn from General Curtis LeMay, who made this assertion in regard to Vietnam. Famously, the Vietnam War bombing campaigns did not win the conflict for the U.S., and served only to kill millions of people while destroying the American reputation. Trump’s use of the phrase does not bode well for Iranians who want to live in safety and Americans who want out of the war.

“It was an escalatory rant,” American Conservative editor Curt Mills told Heilbrunn. “After decades of huffing and puffing, President Trump may have finally met his nemesis. The administration seems positively hoodwinked and out of its depth.”

The unpopular war plus the economic devastation it’s wrought at home and around the world suggest that, wrote Heilbrunn, “the Republican party is headed toward a landslide defeat in the midterms. If it loses both the House and Senate, a third impeachment trial is a certainty.”

It isn’t hard to see why voters would choose to reject Trump and the GOP. Polls show that Americans were already angry about the economic situation, with just 31 percent of voters approving of the president’s handling of the economy. If voters were displeased before, Trump’s statements earlier in the day before the national address couldn’t have helped, with the president declaring, “We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”

As Heilbrunn suggested, Trump prioritizing his unpopular war on Iran over the economic suffering of the American people very well could “prove the undoing of his presidency.”

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