Lukes Publishes Op-Ed on Trump’s Second Impeachment
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an op-ed in Forum 24 – a Czech internet daily – discussing the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
In the article, titled “Sedm statecnych: Osvobodi se Republikanska strana od trumpovskeho bremene?” (The Maginificent Seven: Will the Republican Party Liberate Itself from the Burden of Donald Trump), Lukes focuses on the “Magnificent Seven,” the seven Republican senators who found the political courage to vote Trump guilty for inciting the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He notes the dichotomy between then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s remarks condemning Trump and his vote to pardon the former President.
Lukes condemns Republicans who voted to acquit Trump stating that they chose solidarity against their political enemy over justice. As he states, “fear of people more powerful than them and political opportunism prevailed over the truth.”
The full article can be read on Forum 24‘s website.
Igor Lukes is a past winner of the 1997 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2020 winner of the Gitner Prize for Faculty Excellence at the Pardee School. He writes primarily about Central Europe. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read more about Professor Lukes on his faculty profile.