A freshman senator with 15 months in office, no named offense, and zero path to execution just demanded the removal of a president 312 electoral votes put in the White House. Hamilton called that faction. You can call it whatever you want. Just don’t call it constitutional.
"And the Twenty-Fifth Amendment route? That requires the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to certify the president is unable to discharge his duties. JD Vance isn’t doing that. Neither is anyone in Trump’s Cabinet. Kim knows this. He called for it anyway.
So what’s actually happening here?
Alexander Hamilton answered that question in 1788. In Federalist No. 65, Hamilton warned that impeachment proceedings “will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.” He feared impeachment would be captured by faction — used not to remove a genuine criminal from office, but to relitigate elections that one side refuses to accept.
That’s Andy Kim’s play. Not accountability. Theater.
Democrats have now tried to remove Donald Trump from office or from the ballot four separate times — impeachment in 2019, impeachment in 2021, criminal indictment in 2023, and now this. Every single attempt has failed. Every single attempt has come without the democratic mandate to back it up.
Trump won the 2024 election. He won the popular vote. He won 312 electoral votes. He won because tens of millions of Americans looked at the Democratic Party’s record and chose differently. Kim’s response to that democratic verdict is to call for removal proceedings he knows will go nowhere — because his party has no policy wins to point to and no argument left to make.
This is what political desperation looks like when it borrows constitutional vocabulary it doesn’t intend to use.
"Three sitting members of Congress show documented evidence of cognitive decline or severely impaired judgment, and all three are seeking re-election. There are no fitness tests, no age limits, and no term limits standing in their way. The only check Madison built into the system is the vote, and right now voters are not using it."
Source: New York Post, May 20, 2026 — https://nypost.com/2026/05/20/us-news/congress-declining-80-somethings-seeking-re-election/
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