Just because impeachment proceedings backfired on Republicans doesn't mean that it will

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40. I think they'd love a premature, failed attempt, Laura.

We're in a huge battle for the future direction of our nation that's far bigger than Trump. Continued democracy or takeover by what has become a white nationalist authoritarian party.

Fwiw, eventual successful removal of Trump from office -- as long as it resulted in a far more competent president from their team, Pence -- could also serve Republican goals extremely well. Certainly, Christian reconstructionists would be on board for that.

Not that that could happen yet, of course, because right now the Republican senate would act as heroes protecting the president the people supposedly elected from the evil Democrats. With 95% of their voters opposing removal, they need the excuse and support the investigation results will give them before they can support it.

And those are coming. Nixon had become very unpopular with Republicans until we started investigating him for crimes. Then Republicans rallied around Nixon just as they are to Trump. Two years later (during which time they reelected Nixon by large numbers) when Nixon was proven a criminal to them, they turned on him. Or at least enough of them.

Trump's crimes are far worse than Nixon's. That every Republican senator voted for additional, big sanctions against Russia for election interference is a huge clue to what they are almost certainly eventually going to do as the results of this investigation come out.

As for the statistics, my own take is that close to 100% of DUers really, really want Trump impeached. I know I consider it a moral duty, hopefully one we can fulfill, and am encouraged by incoming Judicial Committee chair Jerry Nadler speaking "impeachment." The gap is between those who want impeachment immediately and those who realize that moving too soon could be a very bad move that ultimately lost us everything.