ULIMWENGU: Bring it on, he won’t be removed from office, but Trump is damaged goods

US President Donald Trump. The president may remain in office, but Democrats have made a historical mark. PHOTO | FILE | AFP

This is surely as good as it gets, if the Republican tribe in American politics think it is necessary to compare Donald Trump’s impeachment blues with the Passion of the Christ, which in any sane Christian environment would be considered blasphemous.

But they are doing it with aplomb. One legislator compared the impeachment that was decided on by the Democratic-dominated House of Reps as worse than what Pontius Pilate did to Jesus before the Nazarene was crucified, that is, that Pontius gave more magnanimous rights to the Easter accused, Jesus, than Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic legislators are willing to consider for poor, persecuted Trump.