There is a tradition in public life that has for too long been honored in the breach. It comes down to this: If you hold high office and perform your duties incompetently, dishonorably or otherwise disastrously, it behooves you to take responsibility and resign.

Today, there are myriad examples of instances in which such a corrective is warranted. Consider just three: The engineered environmental catastrophe in East Palestine on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s watch. The orchestrated invasion of our southern border facilitated by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And President Joe Biden’s serial betrayal of our country to the Chinese Communist Party.

While there are certainly grounds for impeaching these three, they owe it to the American people to exhibit the integrity and sense of duty to spare the country the further trauma and expense of formally removing them from office.

This is Frank Gaffney.