It's rather a problem of intellectual 'illiteracy' from your part I'd say (and others for that matter). And not ultimately a clear incapacity to respect different opinions. You don't get that the problem is much bigger than Trump do you? Trump won the election in large part because he was seen by many as the best existing solution to the excesses of 'progressivism' not because he is a moral or intellectual light of some sort. Where are you living, there is a cultural war raging wildly for about 30 years now (mainly fuelled by the 'progressives' , who by the way claim total victory lately).
Even if Trump disappears via the tactics used by the Democrats, massively penetrated by 'progressivism', the rift in the American society will be still there, with other Trump like politicians ready to take over anyways. Trumpism is not exactly your main danger. But there will be also a dangerous precedent, very likely to invite massive 'progressive' interference with free speech (upon the model we saw in the last 30 years, much less can be openly said these days, even if legitimate) which could make basically anyone, no matter how rational, a target in the future (even the First Amendment will be less and less effective in defending free speech). In the end it's way less about Trump as it is about free speech, already severely weakened in the last decades.
In my view the Democrats lost a good opportunity at least to try to marginalize Trump in the eyes of his electoral base via more realistic accusations (showing for example how he is rather against democracy, without 'insurrection' and other radical accusations) ; something which to not make him appear from the beginning as a victim of the 'progressive' thought and without creating a dangerous precedent in what free speech is concerned.
If I were to be rhetorical I could easily use your kind of phraseology (you have little else I'm afraid), I could easily say for example that maybe you need to leave behind the extreme-Left ideology you expose (at least at the unconscious level) to understand what I say. I don't do it because i get your ultimate point, I just don't find it the best solution in the existing situation.
All this pretentious blather about "progressivism" and "free speech," and you
still don't seem to have grasped a couple of very basic points.
1) Have you ever even bothered to read the article I linked above from NPR which contains the text of the article of impeachment, showing what Trump is actually being impeached for? I suspect not, or you'd understand that the Jan 6 speech is not the sole basis for it- the basis for impeachment is a
totality of conduct that includes the speech but is not limited to it. Since the November election, he has brought courts cases alleging fraud without showing any evidence for it, called Georgia election officials trying to get them to "find the votes" he needed to overturn the results there, and tweeted continuous outright lies about fraud that he can allege in that forum but not prove in any other. This is a
pattern of misconduct- and it's hard to see how Democrats can do any better by way of "showing how he is against democracy" than his own actions (including words) in trying to overturn a legal and fair democratic election. Since impeachment is the
only remedy available for a President's misconduct, I don't see why
this opportunity should be lost.
2) You have got the most thumbless grasp* of the concept of "free speech" if you really think it includes a right to freely lie without consequence. In fact, I think a case could be made that a President actually has
less freedom of speech, in being in a position where his words have potentially more consequence. There just is not any sense of "free speech" that covers a multitude of lies from someone like Trump in a case like his.
*I saw this phrase in an op-ed piece I read recently- I can't remember who wrote it, but I think it was actually a
conservative writer excoriating Trump, not some "progressive." Anyway, it was an expression that really struck me for aptness, so I'm borrowing it here. I'll give it back when I'm done with it.
