Jerry Nadler, just pointed out that the latest revelations indicate "impeachable offenses."
And incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, noted that -- if Trump were to serve out his term -- he might well be prosecuted and spend time in prison after.
I want Trump removed, but if we can't also remove Pence and, if with the house wielding a huge club, we can establish some limits on Trump's behavior, it may be that allowing Trump to finish his term would create our best chance of gaining control of both branches in 2020. He does more damage to the Republicans every week he's in. Once we did that, we could institute our massive democracy reforms and put leashes on both the existential threat from anti-democracy forces and on big business.
Of course, it may not be possible to allow him to finish his term, but that Schiff mentioned imprisonment after if we did, did make me wonder if that was being considered among our courses of action. We didn't remove or prosecute Reagan for his criminal behavior, but rather by bipartisan agreement in a time of constitutional emergency brought a highly respected senator out of retirement and made him Reagan's chief of staff to gain (im)proper control of the west wing.
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