10-29-2019, 12:42 PM
(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.
1. Expose Donald Trump as a disgrace for lacking loyalty to old decencies that most of us have taken for granted.
2. Expose Republicans, especially in the Senate, who defend the bad stuff of Trump.
Defeating Trump in 2020 may not be enough to take down the Senate majority. If the Senate minority uses some dismissive trick such as dismissing the case for impeachment with some parliamentary trick, then Senators participating in such a trick will put themselves at greater risk of defeat than otherwise.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.