"There's an election coming up soon so let the voters decide on the president's conduct rather than impeaching him" is actually a really good argument.
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Replying to @fugueish @NateSilver538
Politically, it's probably a good strategy. The downside is that the continued erosion of norms in the interim risks the US eventually going the way of most other presidential democracies on the American continent.
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The pro-impeachment argument continues to baffle me.
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Also, the public didn't support impeaching Nixon before hearings started.
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Nixon resigned because the vote count on his impeachment put the writing on the wall. The writing says the opposite thing here.
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The Democrats also had majorities in both houses and thus controlled the process. Anyway, seems like people are conflating the idea of not pursuing impeachment with not investigating, which you are not arguing for AFAICT.
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No, of course, they should (carefully, professionally, with extreme discipline) spend basically the next 12 months keeping the administration in a continuous state of high-stakes investigation. Strong agree on that principle.
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I'd make a terrible politician because I would impeach Trump 10 times over, just to continuously occupy the Chief Justice's time and hopefully reduce the rate at which an undemocratically constituted SCOTUS can rule.
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