While perusing a post concerning President Trump’s ill-advised demand that the DOJ investigate Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, suddenly the phrase Little Adam Schiff popped into my mind. A little research confirmed that, indeed, President Trump had denigrated Rep Schiff at one time, and, according to The Blaze[1], used Little pencil-neck Adam Schiff as well.
Funny thing about nicknames that are denigrative. They’re used to indicate the assumed superiority of the speaker, his or her dominance over the target. President Trump is notorious for using nicknames to denigrate his opponents, from Lyin’ Ted Cruz to various Democratic politicians.
This works out fine if you win. But what will Trump do if he is, in fact, impeached? In Trump’s narrow mind, Schiff isn’t performing oversight activities, as that activity has no meaning in the private sector from which Trump hails and is, metaphorically speaking, cloistered in. For Trump, Schiff is attacking him, and if Trump is, in fact, successfully impeached in the House, then Little Adam Schiff will have won.
President Andrew Johnson
Evading conviction in the Republican-controlled Senate will be a treacly counterstroke by Trump as well, since Schiff loses nothing if the conviction doesn’t occur. Trump’s legacy, weak as it is, will be marred with an impeachment on it for all history to review; he’ll join Nixon, Clinton, and Andrew Johnson with that black mark, and Trump only admires the latter. It’s not good company he’s keeping, although he may try to spin it his way.
But all those Democratic nicknames will come back to haunt him, as they triumph over him in a way he’ll never be able to overcome. So if the House does pass Articles of Impeachment, Trump will indeed begin to boil.
After all, he’ll have lost to Little Adam Schiff.
1 The Blaze features this little come-on:
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And thus, in general, is an untrustworthy news site. However, in this particular case I believe we can accept its quote of Trump as true.
