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US incredibly vulnerable as Trump is impeached

UC Head of Political Science Professor Alex Tan comments on the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Alex Tan is Head of Department and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury.

It is more a move towards restoring some order and re-emphasize the concept that no-one is above the law. More importantly, the impeachment is a deterrence against a future president that will try to pull another seditious stunt like the one Trump did.

Why is it important for the post-Trump era?

It is important because the events since the November election and especially the last week shows 1) how vulnerable and fragile a democracy can be…even if it is an old democracy that is supposedly consolidated and institutionalised, 2) that deep hyper partisanship and political polarisation is very serious in the US and would require addressing, and 3) that US system needs to be reformed to prevent something like to happen again. Americans can no longer assume ‘American exceptionalism’ as things that happen in so-called third world countries or autocracies can also happen to the US. The ‘failure of imagination’ amongst Americans and especially the Republican enablers have led to the crisis in American democracy. They have failed to imagine that these things can also happen in the US.

What does it mean for the next seven days?

Why is it important for the post-Trump era?

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