Commentary Beneath the stupefyingly tedious second Trump impeachment trial is a secret wish the late Sigmund Freud might have called China Envy. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I haven’t watched a minute of the trial beyond the first hour. The Australian Tennis Open is in progress and, although Novak Djokovic is the favorite, the ending is still vastly more in doubt than the noxious political theater in the Senate. I will wait for the third impeachment trial in 2026, after Trump has won back the presidency and the Democrats again take back the House… Don’t laugh!) But what do I mean by China Envy? Just what it says. Many Democrats are consciously or unconsciously envious of the system in communist China. This is particularly so since it is not really communist. The nostrums of Karl Marx, fallacious as they are, are little more than a propaganda fig leaf in the People’s Republic. Nobody’s …
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