Green’s intervention transformed a procedural session into a broader moral argument about the present political climate. By characterizing Trump’s statements on Truth Social as edging beyond opinion and toward incitement, he challenged lawmakers to consider whether the steady normalization of hostile rhetoric poses a constitutional risk in itself. His reference to a “countdown to impeachment” was not a procedural timetable, but a warning—suggesting that democratic erosion often occurs gradually, through tolerated excess and repeated silence rather than sudden rupture.
