There’s no chance. What he’s doing now is what the Republicans have been trying to do since the 1980s: defund the government, deport immigrants, end legal abortion, roll back LGBTQ protections, etc.
It’s taken them this long to accomplish it because they all knew actually implementing it would be political suicide. But now they have a president who will very happily push it all through, take all the credit for it, and probably won’t even lose that much popularity as his cult of personality lets him get away with way more than most presidents would.
All they have to do is play passive for the next four years and give non-answers every time anyone asks them why they’re not standing up to Trump. Even if the Democrats win Congress and the presidency in 2028, the Republicans have the courts and can block any bill the Democrats pass, making it very difficult to fix Trump’s mess. And they can blame the recession that the next president inherits on that president, giving them a decent shot at 2032.
In short, Republicans have no reason to want to impeach Trump. They can use him as their attack dog to do what they want without getting their own hands dirty.
They have a damn good reason to want to impeach him. He’s threatening the economy and the remainder of our relevance internationally. The Republicans have to live here too. If he yanks down all the load-bearing structures in our house, it’s going to collapse on them too.
There’s no chance. What he’s doing now is what the Republicans have been trying to do since the 1980s: defund the government, deport immigrants, end legal abortion, roll back LGBTQ protections, etc.
It’s taken them this long to accomplish it because they all knew actually implementing it would be political suicide. But now they have a president who will very happily push it all through, take all the credit for it, and probably won’t even lose that much popularity as his cult of personality lets him get away with way more than most presidents would.
All they have to do is play passive for the next four years and give non-answers every time anyone asks them why they’re not standing up to Trump. Even if the Democrats win Congress and the presidency in 2028, the Republicans have the courts and can block any bill the Democrats pass, making it very difficult to fix Trump’s mess. And they can blame the recession that the next president inherits on that president, giving them a decent shot at 2032.
In short, Republicans have no reason to want to impeach Trump. They can use him as their attack dog to do what they want without getting their own hands dirty.
They have a damn good reason to want to impeach him. He’s threatening the economy and the remainder of our relevance internationally. The Republicans have to live here too. If he yanks down all the load-bearing structures in our house, it’s going to collapse on them too.