Will Joe Biden be impeached?

Before inflation began to eat the American economy alive, impeachflation had already undermined the office of the presidency. Donald Trump was only the third president to have been impeached. Yet he was impeached twice: in December 2019, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress; and in January 2021, for ‘incitement to insurrection’ following the riots on Capitol Hill on 6 January.

People argued about whether these impeachments were right or wrong, but that’s not all that relevant now. What matters today is that Republicans saw that their political opponents were willing to use impeachment as a cudgel to hurt the nation’s Commander-in-Chief. And now they want revenge. As Joseph Siracusa, a political scientist at Curtin University, says: ‘It’s payback time.’

On 8 November, America will vote in the mid-terms. With the economy in peril, gas prices at near record highs, and a Democratic president whose job approval ratings keeps sliding, it seems highly likely that the Democrats are going to get a far more painful ‘shellacking’ than the one Barack Obama suffered in 2010.