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In reply to the discussion: The time has arrived for us to worry what might happen if we DON'T impeach the lunatic in the WH [View all]FrankTC
(210 posts)Based on facts in evidence, I think Trump should be impeached already. Articles drawn up, debated, and voted out by the House. I don't greatly mind if there's hearings with witnesses and testimony in order to shore up the case, though I am doubtful about the goal that is often expressed -- educating the public. There are vast swaths of the public that don't care to be educated. That is, I'm not inclined to agree with this part of the OP:
If Trump is impeached and the GOP in the Senate does not vote to remove him, it's the Republicans who stand to lose at the ballot box in 2020 because any law abiding Americans will lose any remaining respect that they had for those assholes to begin with. Rest assured that there are a lot of decent Americans who got fooled into voting for Trump in 2016. Through the impeachment hearings alone, those folks would see the light, they'll see the truth, and they will not be fooled again.
I don't think any, much less many, decent Americans voted for Trump in 2016. In voting for Trump you turned in your decency card. And if after two years you are still a Trump supporter, you are a card-carrying degenerate. I think it's a delusion to believe that hearings and witnesses and testimonies will reach these people -- or at least requires a wealth of optimism that I don't possess.
Impeach him if possible, but don't count on enlightening the third of the country that are no more capable of political participation than a bag of crankshafts.