To impeach, or not to impeach

[Eric the Green]

(10-29-2019, 08:44 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: What's the point of it? The Democrats will never get 67 votes against Trump. So what is this good for? To show that they really, really dislike him? I think we all know about that.

There's always a chance that concern for justice and the interests of the country will prevail over the Republican Party ideology and loyalty, even if a slim chance. The Republicans are actually right that impeaching him may be the only way to defeat him. It so happens that impeachment is also necessary because otherwise our society ratifies Trump's behavior of using his office solely for his own power and wealth without any concern for other powers in the government. We would be on the way to Mussolini taking power in the USA. 

But it's also true that a first-term impeached president, but who was not yet removed from office, has never yet stood for re-election. Impeachment by the House might put Trump at just enough of a disadvantage to overcome his natural talents and the cheating and power plays of the Republicans that put him in office. It might convince just enough voters in Wisconsin (and PA and MI) to swing the election to one of the relatively-inadequate Democratic candidates now likely to be nominated.

Most Republicans will call this impeachment a partisan witch hunt, and stay loyal to their demagogic cheetftain. But enough working-class independents and Democrats who voted for Trump in 2016 might switch that it could shift the electoral college into the Democratic column. The voters then might complete what the loyalist, Trumpist, partisan Republicans in the Senate refused to do-- these senators knowing as they do that they are stuck at the hip to this clownface as the only hope they have to win.