If Speaker Pelosi doesn't think the House is ready to begin impeachment hearings, it's because

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8. Bingo!

She's in the minority, but a very powerful minority in the party. Who have some unbeknownst interest in not wanting to upset the applecart. I'm sure she wants to beat Trump as much as anyone, she just is more comfortable not gambling with an impeachment. Even if its the right thing to do in any historical definition you could make. If she / we did start it up, even if we lost in the Senate...even if we lost in 2020 Although I think that highly unlikely after all the dirt comes out. Ten years later and onwards I think historians and writers could take a breath and look back at the Trump era with the horror it deserves. I think we are all still in an ongoing state of shock.

If the Senate protects him from impeachment, Democrats and young people will vote. If we vote en mass, we win. IMO its a much greater gamble NOT to impeach. Because if you then still lose in 2020, it would be near impossible to then start impeachment. And Democrats would be branded cowards, by probably Trump himself, with derisive tweets. I don't know if I could stand that.