Some Republicans see the Ukraine/Biden impeachment inquiry as a deep-state coup attempt against U.S. President Donald Trump. Some progressives are beginning to scratch the surface of an alternative, but equally cynical, analysis that I think leftists ought to consider: The impeachment of Trump is a DNC/centrist coup attempt against progressives inside the Democratic Party.
Democrats could have launched impeachment proceedings over any number of more compelling issues: Trump's child separation policy at the border, the Muslim travel ban, emoluments, the president's erratic behavior on social media. Why the Ukraine/Biden affair?
The House inquiry is hardly ideal from a framing perspective. The only conceivable reason that the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma hired U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden's screw-up drug addict alcoholic son, with zero experience in the energy sector, to sit on its board of directors for $50,000 a month was that he was the vice president's son. The political website Vox notes that "the situation constituted the kind of conflict of interest that was normally considered inappropriate in Washington." Pre-impeachment, no one knew about this sleaze.