Looking at Impeachment From the Left
How should the Left view the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump? Are they a political opportunity or a distraction from the issues that leftists care about? A Jacobin roundtable.
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds up a copy of a transcript provided by the Trump administration of the phone call between US president Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president while speaking about the start of an impeachment inquiry at the US Capitol on September 25, 2019 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee / Getty
What should the Left’s attitude be towards the impeachment proceedings?
To get to the bottom of that question, Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman and Liza Featherstone spoke with two Jacobin contributors who view the issue from different angles: Samuel Moyn of Yale Law School and Max Sawicky, an economist formerly with the Economic Policy Institute and the federal Government Accountability Office.
The transcript of this conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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