Impeachment Proposal

The US Government had clearly not prepared for this war—at least, everyone in the US Government apart from President Wilson had not.

President Wilson wanted to unite the entire nation against this war, but he faced a Republican Party determined to impeach him, as well as a US Congress controlled by the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party was also split into two factions over whether to support President Wilson. Aside from Wilson's supporters, most of the rest believed this farce had gone on long enough.

They could not possibly just stand by and watch the United States fall apart, could they? As one of the United States' two major parties, the Democratic Party was naturally part of the group with vested interests in the country.

If the United States perished, it would definitely not be good news for the Democratic Party. Even if the Democratic Party could continue to exist in the ruined United States, its influence then would be utterly incomparable to what it was now.

If President Wilson had still been healthy, he could have won over some members of Congress through his personal prestige.

But President Wilson was now half-paralyzed. Members of Congress were not fools, and they would not support a half-paralyzed president with only a few months left in his term under such circumstances.

For the US Government, how to mobilize all the state-level administrative regions was also an extremely thorny problem. The United States differed from the countries of Europe. The United States of this era was a relatively loose federal system rather than a centralized one.

The states possessed enormous authority. They had their own armed forces—military police and militia—as well as their own legislative and law-enforcement powers.

Without permission, no armed force, including federal troops, was permitted to enter another state-level administrative