A petition calling for the impeachment
As the signatures climb, the petition has become less a legal demand than a collective verdict.
For those signing, it is a way to say that what happened under Trump’s watch still matters,
that alleged abuses of power and attacks on democratic
norms cannot simply be folded into history and forgotten.
Each name is a statement that accountability should outlast any single term in office.
Yet the backlash is just as telling.
Detractors see the petition as proof that the country is trapped in an endless cycle of
relitigation and resentment, a refusal to move on.
That clash—between those insisting on a reckoning and
those demanding closure—captures the deeper fracture in American life.
In the end, the petition’s real legacy may be this:
a stark, public reminder that the fight over what Trump represents is far from over.
