Democrats’ impeachment of Trump is way too thin

Where did the Trump impeachment go?

When House Democrats began selling tickets to their President Donald Trump Impeachment Theater — shouting outrage, preening on those latenight talk shows — it was much meatier business.

At least that’s what Democrats promised. But that’s not what they delivered for consideration for a vote by the full House, was it?

What they offered weren’t High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Instead, they offered only attitude and rhetoric, without meat and bone.

They promised everything and yet ended up providing nothing, like air sandwiches offered to feed that angry mob they’ve stoked since the day Trump infuriated them by not losing the election to Hillary Clinton.

So, where has the impeachment gone?

Democrats ended up offering two thin counts: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

But where were the serious crimes upon which to build a legitimate impeachment and convince Republicans to join them?

There are no crimes in this, only political arguments predicated on Trump’s great sin:

He defeated Hillary with his 62 million deplorables, and Democratic elites have hated him and them since.

The House Democratic impeachment of Trump does accomplish two things.

It drives independents to his side, even those who loathe his manner, his vulgarity and brutishness, because they see what silkies of the left have done.

And it lowers the bar for impeachment, inviting some future Congress to impeach a president just because he defeated them.

Every president has been accused of abusing power by a Congress led by the other party.

Yet there was real abuse of power in this story, which starts in that debunked Russia-collusion fever dream and weaves into Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president when he asked Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.

Abuse of power happened when Democratic presidential candidate and then-Vice President Joe Biden was Obama’s point man in Ukraine.

Biden’s son Hunter is a father’s nightmare, a train wreck of a man. But the Ukrainian gas company Burisma didn’t worry about his character or his complete lack of experience in the gas business.

Hunter was Joe Biden’s son, who received at least $50,000 a month from Burisma.

Per Obama, Joe Biden had $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees for Ukraine. But he demanded that the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma be fired.

“I said ... I’m leaving in six hours,” Biden bragged on video. “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b——. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

Quid. Pro. Quo.

So why were bribery and extortion removed from the Democrats’ articles of impeachment? Because Joe Biden is their presidential candidate. And discussing quid pro quo, or extortion or bribery, leads right to Joe and Hunter Biden.

In liberal media accounts, Americans who see Trump Impeachment Theater as partisan hackery and farce are often belittled as morons. They’re described as mindless idiots who’ve been sucked into cult of Trump.

But constant media and political ridicule by the liberal elites can backfire.

As it shrinks in stature, the House Democrat impeachment is beginning to resemble those muchhyped products that you find, forgotten and dusty, in the “As Sold on TV” aisle in dreary discount stores.