You think you want impeachment, but you really don't. Think it through with me. Time for some GAME THEORY
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Remember the interminable political circus of the Clinton impeachment trial, and imagine that taking place in today's political context, with a President who has already learned that military action is the quickest route to regaining popularity
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Remember, too, that the great risk is not Trump, but the generation of younger competent politicians rising in on the right, and learning from his playbook. Remove Trump from office with less than unanimity and you fuel their politics of grievance for a generation
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The way to defeat Trump is through a massive electoral victory in the midterms. Make the Republican Party pay a horrible price at the ballot box for enabling him. Then, open House investigations of his shady business dealings, the Russian connection—pick a scandal, any scandal
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This, rather than fantasies of impeachment (or, god forbid, the 25th amendment) are the way to burn the nascent authoritarian movement with fire. It's a hard way to win, but the only effective way to win. So put your efforts, however you can, into that fight!
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The key is to let trump self-destruct, and take the party down with him, without taking the country with him. An active, politically fearless blue congress is the only way to get that outcome. Teaching the Democrats to be fearless will be the hard part
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32% is far from a people's president
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Huge blue wave at midterms would help set things in stone.
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Didn't happen with Nixon (not impeached, but only because he resigned to preempt it). There were GOP dead-enders, but few enough that pundits were asking if the party could ever win again.
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(Of course, Nixon was widely and correctly seen to have behaved scandalously; the Clinton thing was a partisan witch hunt, perceived as such widely enough that left him as popular as he'd been when it started.)
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As of today, yes. There are scenarios that look more like Nixon’s downfall. Depends who flips, and how compelling (and irrefutable to nearly all) the evidence is.
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I’m not against an impeachment scenario that was near-unanimous. And I think that’s a possibility, but only after an election
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