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Trump is already as unpopular as Nixon. What are Dems worried about?
[link:https://crooksandliars.com/2019/05/trump-already-unpopular-nixon-what-are|
Democrats in 1973 were facing the prospect of impeaching a president who had just been re-elected in a landslide with a 65 percent approval rating. This time is not anywhere near that one. And the Mueller report is not the Starr report. Get on with it.
By digby
It's driving me nuts that we have to keep making this point, but we do. Here's historian Kevin Kruse doing it succinctly on twitter:
Kevin M. Kruse
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@KevinMKruse
House Democrats are worried about possible political blowback from an impeachment inquiry into a president whose crimes have already been laid out in detail by others and who currently has a pathetic 38% approval.
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I agree with this article 10000000000000% !