Democrats need a killer “smoking gun” viral moment that will crystallise once and for all that Trump has no business being in the Oval Office. Failure to hammer home that message could prove fatal.
Starting next week, the Democrat-driven impeachment process enters a crucial public phase. Illustration: David Rowe
Washington | When Andrew Johnson became the first United States president to be impeached in 1868, the first epoch-changing trans-Atlantic cable had only just been laid.
In that simpler media age it would have taken weeks or months for news of Congress’s ultimately failed attempt to thrust Johnson out of the White House for “high crimes and misdemeanours” to filter across a continent still crawling out from beneath the devastation of the Civil War.
Jacob GreberSenior correspondentJacob Greber was The Australian Financial Review’s senior political correspondent. Connect with Jacob on Twitter. Email Jacob at jgreber@afr.com
