1. Part of the drama we're seeing today and on Wednesday is the inherent tension between a professional civil service and Trump's desire for for personal control of government ("The United States, c'est moi")
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This tension can exist but I don't see it here. Seems pretty clear to me these officials were doing their best to carry out what was *stated* U.S. policy. The problem here was (yes) Trump created a backchannel solely to use/abuse his powers to personally benefit himself.
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Yes, exactly. From what it seems, the lion's share of the testimony hasn't been "it's bad because it's corrupt" but "it's bad AND 'corrupt' because it was in the service of a foreign policy shift that we, the blob, absolutely loathe."
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The testimony isn't pitting the "establishment's" foreign policy against alternative Trump foreign policy, but rather establishing that Trump had no non-corrupt alternative policy. It's also equally importantly drawing a graphic contrast between public servants and Trump.
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2. Then Dems can underscore how Trump embracing Putin’s counter narrative and bullying Ukraine into investigating it factors in to a wider effort by the White House to cover up collusion with the Kremlin in 2016.
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You mean the collusion that 22 months of Mueller investigations failed to substantiate?
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This is so correct: "the most valid ground to impeach Trump is that he used his office for a corrupt purpose, to get a foreign government to slime a rival politician" but Dems can't go there because of how corrupt they are themselves.
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