NBC’s TODD: "Let me ask you this, why do you think Nancy Pelosi has held off her impeachment caucus?" TRUMP: "Because I think she feels that I will win much easier.” That looks about right. AND IT’S DEAD WRONG: constitutionally for sure, and even pragmatically.
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When I think back to the impact of the Watergate hearings, the value of the inquiry went well beyond ultimately removing Nixon. It was a public demonstration of our system’s capacity to self-correct. As badly needed today as it was then.
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Even if Pelosi’s narrow political calculus is correct (which is arguable, but not out of the question), there are larger values at stake that demand public hearings.
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A pre-requisite to the Watergate hearings was a shared commitment across parties to the institutions of democracy. I see a lot of people (not necessarily you) arguing in a cargo cult way that if we could just have the hearings, we'd somehow get the consensus back too
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The immediate political considerations are certainly important, but they aren’t the only things at stake here. I worry that by not holding hearings, we’re surrendering the idea that exposing the truth about wrongdoing has inherent value whatever the immediate outcome.
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I see "we have to do what's right no matter the politics" as a category error of the same kind as "the country's economy should be run like a household's economy". You can't get to justice when the courthouse is on fire; gotta put out the fire first.
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