IMO even if Dems sweep in the midterms, even with a 2/3 majority, they will still not impeach. They simply don't have the balls to do anything but maybe Chuck Schumer can keep shaking his finger of derision with his glasses drawn down on his nose, that's kind of fighter we need.
Oh, i think for sure they will impeach him. Repeatedly, in fact. They won’t remove him, because no matter how well they do they won’t get ⅔ in the senate.
Yep, rendering the entire process useless and wasting everyone's time. If he's impeached again with zero consequences what does it actually matter?
It’s not a waste of time. It is in fact crucially important to do. Further while the Republicans might too cowardly to impeach him others in his administration are far more vulnerable. Finally, from a political standpoint hanging that failure over Republicans is a necessary argument for reforms. And as you say in the next paragraph kneecapping his administration is part of the solution.
He'll wear it like a badge of honor and the only change will be energizing his base, lest we've learned absolutely nothing over the last 8 years.
That’s not what happened as a result of impeachment last time - Trump LOST in 2020 after impeachment - and NOT impeaching him would be so much worse. That would be the opposition party declaring that he was right to do these things. You don’t win by not fighting.
Not sure how you draw that conclusion, Trump still won a second term and much of it was based on his getting arrested as well as capitalizing on his impeachment. I'm all for fighting but that's not what Democrats do, they start proceedings and then hedge, then Trump stomps their faces into the dirt and they go home crying with their tails between their legs.
The timeline is that Trump was impeached in 2019 and lost in 2020. Yes he won 4 years later and this post will be too short to go into all the reasons why. But if attempts to hold him accountable energized his base he should've won in 2020. He didn't.
