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In reply to the discussion: I think the alleged conventional wisdom is wrong. I think Dems retake the Senate BY Impeaching Trump [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)Can you imagine if we don't impeach, and yet he wins a second term?
Because the message will STILL be for Republican voters that the Democrats are going to impeach in 2021 so they must take back the House. We could end up back to all branches controlled by R's with a new invigorated Trump, with the Mueller report far behind him, including the now precedent established conclusion of Mueller that a sitting President can't be indicted.
At least, if we lose (hypothetically) and hold impeachment hearings, there will be a record. And even if Fox News, Limpballs, Putin's trolls, GOP governors with suppression laws, do enough again to give him a majority of electoral votes, it will still be a slow drip. New scandals and traitorous behavours will emerge in his second term which will only add onto his perp sheet. Or confirm his guilt for a lot of voters.
IF we lose in 2020 there is more a chance to take back the House again in 2022 with that cumulative effect, than if we wimp out now, and reduce everything from not only in the Mueller report, but all the areas that Mueller did NOT investigate. And also Democrats will lose many voters that are expecting them to fight and disgusted by their choice of just soldiering on with 'business as usual'.