Snapshot of the GOP dilemma: in 1974, enough Republicans turned on Nixon to get him to resign. Gerald Ford, a respectable & decent man, took over. How did voters reward Republicans in the midterms? They lost 4 Senate & 49 House seats.
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If the Democrat party cannot win a presidential election under these circumstances, well....
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It is in the GOP's longterm interests to provide as little soil for a Dolchstosslegende to grow.
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There wasn't broad, bipartisan public demand for Nixon to go. Only AFTER the Judiciary committee voted to impeach did a a majority want him gone, and it never got above 57%. So I think your Nixon example cuts exactly the opposite of how you think.
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Even at the VERY end, after he'd lost in SCOTUS and was going to be impeached in the House, he was still supported by a chunk of Americans equivalent to the modern GOP base. The Republicans bucked their base to remove him. It's unthinkable today.
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How can you expect Republicans to back impeachment when they're not allowed to see the evidence?
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