Robert Reich’s 2026-04-13 Substack post “How to Impeach…for Real” claims that “Now’s the time to start organizing” to impeach Mr. Trump.

Whoa there, doggy!

As much as I’d love to see the man and his administration gone, attempting to impeach him yet again will only energize his followers, fuel their claims of persecution by the ‘liberal elite communist Deep State’ and very possibly incite violence on a scale far beyond Jan 6 – all while he still has full control of the Department of ‘Justice’ and the military to use as his imperial guard! Plus, even if it succeeded, impeachment would put J. D. Vance in the White House – one small step for an unqualified man and one giant leap toward his reelection in 2028 and establishment of a Christian Nationalist dynasty.

No. What opponents of Mr. Trump need to do is focus like lasers on taking back Congress and doing so by large enough margins to override the predictable slew of veto attempts. Talking about yet another impeachment makes that outcome less likely, not more.

Instead, all foes of our current autocracy* need to work to elect legislators of any party who will aggressively reassert Congressional authority under the Constitution. That and the painfully slow but sometimes constructive actions of Judges up to and including the Supremes are the only way to dull the worst of Mr. Trump’s impulses until 2028 and to peel away a large enough slice of his followers to ensure he is not able to install a successor regime for another eight years after that. This is a long battle we are fighting, and repeatedly grabbing for the shiniest but least effective solution is not the way to win it.

America is stronger when we work together again against our common foes, including against the tyranny of this deeply flawed man who has become entirely divorced from reality, law and enduring American values.

On a different but related note, ‘E Unum Pluribus’ is a speculative fiction set in the dark future which may come about if we continue to pursue partisan divisiveness. It is currently being serialized, and anyone can read it – for free – starting at: https://robinandrew.net/2026/01/01/e-unum-pluribus/

*Yes, Virginia: we are already in an autocratic period of our nation’s history– one man dictating federal spending, federal prosecutions, decreeing individuals be arrested and shipped off without due process to imprisonment that would not be allowed within our borders, unilaterally deciding portions of our Constitution mean what he wants them to mean not what their words clearly state, removing inspectors general and anyone else who might check his actions, installing unqualified sycophants at every level, remaking Federal buildings and even the nation’s Capital district at his every whim and will, starting wars without Congress and trashing relationships and agreements which predecessors spent decades nurturing and all the while posting crude taunts, temper rants and juvenile prank images depicting himself as King, Pope and Savior – if all that is not autocracy, I don’t know what is!