DON'T IMPEACH TRUMP!

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20. Depends. We shouldn't impeach presidents for purely political reasons. But serious and demonstrable

malfeasance can require something sooner than a national thumbs-down at the next presidential election

I don't think we should impeach him because he's a slimy sexist slob. But I think we can impeach him for deliberate violations of campaign laws

We might or might not want to impeach him for an incompetent and potentially dangerous foreign policy. But we should certainly impeach him if his campaign was illegally coordinating with a foreign power to influence election results -- and right now, it certainly looks like the campaign might have done that

I don't think we should necessarily impeach him for incompetence: the presidency is an almost impossibly difficult job for anyone, and probably no one has ever done as well in it as we need them to do. But the constitution must also us to impeach a president for gross incompetence, if we decide we really need to do so for the national good. We might reasonably tolerate getting stuck briefly in a muddy rut but we're not obliged to let him drive us over a cliff to drove in the river below