Will There Be An Impeachment At All?
Clarice Feldman makes a strong case this morning that there likely will, in the end, be no impeachment: Trumping a Low Pair . I'm somewhat agnostic on this. I certainly see the strength of her arguments:
Impeachment Theater has put Trump's and GOP fundraising generally on steroids heading into national elections.
The Republican base is energized to an extent that may be historic.
Perhaps more importantly, independents across the country are increasingly up in arms over their do-nothing Congress that refuses to address the nations problems.
The country is riding a wave of prosperity for all demographic sectors that is utterly unprecedented and likely to continue.
Impeachment Theater is fronted by the most unlikeable and frankly crazy people to appear before the public since ... well, since the deeply unpopular Kavanaugh hearings.
The House kangaroo court procedures have proven deeply offensive to the American sense of fundamental fairness--which take on an even sharper edge when applied to the national leader, the one official elected by the nation at large. The public at large knows fairness--and fundamental unfairness--when it sees it, and has tuned out Impeachment Theater just when the Dems need an audience riveted to their devices--TVs, phones, tablets, whatever.
All of this militates strongly against impeachment. Rationally, legally, ethically. And yet ... we know those considerations don't enter into this. As the very liberal Professor Turley said, it's about rage . Rage against the undesired reality confronting the left in America. It's as if the left has tried everything to convince America to turn Trans, to deny political and economic reality. It's not working, and they're increasingly frustrated and angry.
As Feldman also points out, the Dems have pretty much painted themselves into a corner. How do they get out of this room? Moreover, their base pretty much lives in a leftist MSM echo chamber that polling shows is increasingly divorced from American reality. Will they simply, once more as in the Kavanaugh hearings, lash out against the people they hate?
I'm at a point where I'd toss a coin. Dems are dancing on the edge of a cliff, or so it seems to me.