but unlike Corbyn he's hugely popular
Who can blame them? They ratfucked him last time and they're trying to do it again.
I don't think so. Schiff and Pelosi are not stupid, they knew that they could never remove Trump through impeachment with this senate, so far from having dissipated all their energy on it, it must have always been a part of their plan for it to be part of their 2020 anti-Trump election campaign. It may not work but I refuse to believe that they are dumb enough to have thought they could remove him and that they put all their efforts into that and are now sitting there dumbfounded going "What now, I really thought Trump would be gone so I have no ideas left". Let's face it, even if he HAD somehow been removed by some kind of miracle, he would have just been replaced by another Republican, who would need to be defeated in 2020 in the same way. No-one can have thought that impeachment somehow replaced the general election cos it just doesn't.I think the Democrats should start thinking ahead to the 2024 election right now. They've dissipated all their energy and resources chasing the mirage of impeachment and basically made this one a write off.
it should be anyone but trump. if your candidate wins the nomination, great. if another candidate wins the nomination, fall into line and support them over trump. any other action is nothing more than selfish, privileged behavior by people who choose to stand on their purity because they aren't the ones most affected by trump's and the GOP's policies.
enough with the moral high ground, play to win.
I don't think so. Schiff and Pelosi are not stupid, they knew that they could never remove Trump through impeachment with this senate, so far from having dissipated all their energy on it, it must have always been a part of their plan for it to be part of their 2020 anti-Trump election campaign. It may not work but I refuse to believe that they are dumb enough to have thought they could remove him and that they put all their efforts into that and are now sitting there dumbfounded going "What now, I really thought Trump would be gone so I have no ideas left". Let's face it, even if he HAD somehow been removed by some kind of miracle, he would have just been replaced by another Republican, who would need to be defeated in 2020 in the same way. No-one can have thought that impeachment somehow replaced the general election cos it just doesn't.
I'm not arguing it was a good strategy. I think it was a gamble... if they could have won the witness vote and they'd been paraded in front of the country then that could have made a difference. I did read about people watching the trial having previously seen Fox (Fox didn't show the trial) and suddenly realising things were much worse and more clear cut than they had been led to believe. So I think they knew that the Parnas stuff was gonna come oit, Bolton too, and gambled on public pressure into scaring a couple of senators to vote.Maybe, and I'm not saying they're stupid. But it seems to me that this has done more harm to the Democrats than it has to Trump. If it was a strategy, it seems misconceived.
Unrelatedly, or separate point anyhow, I do believe that if you catch the president betraying the country you have to do fucking something!