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babylonsister

(171,032 posts)
Wed Nov 13, 2019, 08:10 AM Nov 2019

What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP

https://politicalwire.com/2019/11/13/what-impeachment-will-cost-the-gop/

What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP
November 13, 2019 at 7:07 am EST By Taegan Goddard


John Harris: “The conventional appraisal of Trump’s prospects—the House will likely convict, the Senate will likely acquit and Trump will claim vindication—might well be true. But this glosses over a larger point: On the current trajectory, Republicans are engaging in a battle with their own long-term costs that they will be paying for the next generation.”

“Based on Clinton’s precedent, those costs will be paid against Trump’s agenda—things he wants to do but won’t achieve because of the distorting effects of impeachment on his political options and room for maneuver.”

“They will be paid by his associates—people whose reputations and ambitions will be permanently dented because of their proximity to him. And they will be paid by conservatives who follow him—who will discover their own principles have lost credibility and power in the public mind because of their connection to Trump.”



What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP
Even if the Senate clears Donald Trump, the Republican Party could pay the price for a generation.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/13/impeachment-republicans-trump-bill-clinton-070389
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What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP (Original Post) babylonsister Nov 2019 OP
Good read underpants Nov 2019 #1
Time will tell Sherman A1 Nov 2019 #2
May their children/grandchildren curse them and disown them. DinahMoeHum Nov 2019 #3

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. Time will tell
Wed Nov 13, 2019, 08:31 AM
Nov 2019

but with the weak knees of the Infotainment Media it is hard to tell what will happen long term.

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