John Derbyshire: Trump Re-Impeachment Is Like Digging Up Cromwell's Bones | Blog Posts
a- Here's what our nation's legislators have been doing this week—they've been impeaching President Trump again! Here is a story from British history. There was an English king, Charles the First, of the Stuart dynasty. Our schoolmasters told us that Charles was "cultured, autocratic, and unwise." He was so unwise, the nation fell into a civil war, which Charles lost. The victors chopped his head off in 1649. For the following nine years Britain was a republic, though it preferred to be called a commonwealth. The head of this show was a chap named Oliver Cromwell, with the title Lord Protec...