We would be in a very different place if the Democrats had made their peace with Trump's election and then evidence of impeachable offenses had emerged. As it stands I can't shake the sense that we are watching the republic come apart before our eyes.
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Replying to @BretWeinstein
We're setting ourselves up for a very volatile situation in which impeachment (very predictably) fails to result in removal and Trump (very predictably) wins a second democratic election. This'll be treated as a near impossibility, a complete surprise & a subversion of democracy.
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Replying to @sodabeest @BretWeinstein
Elected sitting presidents seeking re-election very, very rarely fail to get it. When they do fail, they're facing a weak economy (Trump is not) and/or an extremely strong cross-party-popular opponent (Trump almost certainly will not be).
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I'm not saying Trump can't lose, but it will be an extraordinarily unusual historical event if he does.
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Replying to @sodabeest @BretWeinstein
The situation has a *lot* of highly unusual features, certainly — but by the numbers, he's just not that atypical. His approval rating, for example, is actually very close to where Obama's was at the same point in his presidency (though Trump has never reached Obama's high point)pic.twitter.com/lD3U8YjjNy
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More importantly, voters tend to favor "the devil they know." Probably the greatest boon to Democrats in 2016 was the argument that Trump's a maniac who may well kill us all within the month if given the nuclear codes. They've lost that advantage. It's an uphill battle from here.
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