Here are 5 reasons the politics of impeachment have turned in the Democrats’ favor
America loves impeaching President Trump. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images In the first few days after House Democrats announced impeachment proceedings against President Trump, a series of anti-Trump conservatives published columns arguing that they were making a giant tactical error. Bret Stephens , David Brooks , and George Will all produced the same argument. Trump has done awful things, but impeachment will repel the public. Only an election can remove him.
This isn’t Russia. The anticlimactic denouement of the Russia investigation weighed heavily on the impeachment skeptics. But the political impact of the Russia probe was smothered both by its dependence on Robert Mueller, who was held back by an almost monk-like desire to escape politics by giving Trump every benefit of the doubt, and the sheer complexity of the affair.
Anita Kumar has a revealing story quoting hard-core Trumpists — ones who stood behind him throughout the Russia scandal — expressing their belief that this time he went too far. “Russia was never real,” an outside Trump adviser says, “Ukraine is.” “Russia was a complete and utter fantasy. Ukraine isn’t. His actions were unseemly … not a ghost like Russia,” says another Republican. “Should he have mentioned Biden? No. I wish he wouldn’t have.
The politics can get worse, too. Republican support for Trump may be louder than the criticism. But the silence of many Republicans, not just the handful of quasi-independent voices, speaks volumes. Many Republicans are withholding judgment, perhaps criticizing impeachment as hasty, but not defending Trump’s behavior or ruling out removal if more evidence emerges.
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