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Will Republicans really try to impeach Biden? Sure he's wounded, and they smell blood
Liberals aren't ready to face the truth: The Biden honeymoon is over, fascism's on the rise and winter is coming
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 8, 2021 6:00AM (EDT)
Joe Biden, the COVID-19 vaccine and the January 6th Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)
Joe Biden, the COVID-19 vaccine and the January 6th Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)
Several weeks ago, I warned that the Republicans will impeach Joe Biden after they likely regain control of the House of Representatives next year. This is an obvious conclusion based on what leading Republicans, Donald Trump himself and the right-wing propaganda machine have been saying in public since Biden's election last year.
Impeaching Biden is one tactical or strategic element in a larger plan to delegitimize any election that Republican do not win. The ultimate goal is to replace America's nascent multiracial democracy with an unofficial apartheid system under which nonwhite people and other targeted groups are effectively second-class citizens. The Democratic Party would be rendered practically irrelevant, and the country would be a type of fake democracy ruled under a system of "competitive authoritarianism.
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FBaggins
(26,736 posts)Obviously, Democrats aren't going to impeach Biden.
Can we please be a little more nuanced than "it's either a Honeymoon or a fascist winter" nonsense?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)is if they win the House then Biden simply doesn't get any desirable legislation passed.
JohnSJ
(92,190 posts)convict because of the 2/3 required in the Senate
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Walleye
(31,022 posts)we can do it
(12,184 posts)CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)We don't have the numbers to pass the kind of legislation that inspires people to vote. I know that most of us on DU don't have to be "inspired" to vote, we just do it, but new voters are fickle. They often expect unrealistic results in a couple of years. The other side is not only fired up on hate, they are cheating whenever & wherever they can. GOTV has always been our strength, but the other side may have finally rat fucked us out of that.
samplegirl
(11,477 posts)if they could.
themaguffin
(3,826 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)and what's this 'likelihood' that republicans will regain control of the house?
samplegirl
(11,477 posts)anymore. To much negativity.
spanone
(135,831 posts)brooklynite
(94,550 posts)Even if he was Impeached, he wouldn't be convicted by the Senate, and thus would be "acquitted" in the eyes of the public.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)We should act like it and fight back against them.
If we don't prosecute, they will steal it. Once they have it, they will come after any and all Dems.
budkin
(6,703 posts)Its going to be their new norm.