ReTrumplican Impeachment strategy is a suicide mission.

[theneworiginal]

There is little doubt that the Repub’s will make lots of noise, and create plenty of smoke and fear at the Hearing. But by killing their own credibility amongst voters and sane Republican's, the party won’t survive the next election. Lack of credibility and an empty platform built only on Angry Opposition are already the reasons Trump is on the outside looking in. Still, many R's are doubling down on their ostracized leader. Good for them. This week was a perfect parallel—while MTG and McCarty/Trump got all the headlines, Joe Biden quietly put on an absolute clinic of Presidential proficiency, beating the raging Repubs 40-something to nothing in real world politics. The Raging RW minority didn’t get anything for their bluster this week or in November for that matter. But the chickenshit R’s can’t seem to figure this out.

House/Senate R’s caving in to appease tRump is a false economy for their party. Yes, some of the loudest, most passionate and radical voters are Trump’s base. But what Repub pols are not factoring into their math is that Trump energized Democratic voters like never before, too, far outdistancing the vocal RWWJ minority in the landslide victory. New Dem registrations were off the hook and an anti-Trump energy propelled the Democratic party in numbers like never before. Trump is and will continue to be a bigger catalyst for Dem pols and voters than the Repubs.

Now, huge numbers of registered Republicans switching parties. Corporations are divesting and social media shut tRump up. So while Radical Trumpettes may represent 2/3 of the Rep base, they only represent 1/3 of voters, and that number is falling. This math will doom the Repub’s at every poll despite all the noise. But like we see in so many abusive relationships, the Repub pols are still putting fear over facts as they cow-tow to the threatening members of the tRump cult. Like tRump, the party is valuing power over politics and it is foolishly staking its future on an angry, irrational, threatening mob of outcasts which resembles its leader in every way.

The R's would be smart to convict tRump, move on and get back to the business of the country.

[Dorian Gray]

1. It's all so stupid

It would definitely be smart for them to convict Trump, but there are only a handful of Republicans that are smart. This is going to do lasting damage to their party. House and Senate are in two different places, but if I were a republican in the senate I would threaten to caucus with the dems unless he's gone.

[RKP5637]

2. Most republicans IMO are knuckle dragers, and even advanced education makes no difference. n/t

[Dorian Gray]

3. Oh God yes

Look at the "smart" ones. Hawley: Stanford. Cruz: Princeton. Cotton: Harvard. They're all so obviously weaselly in their own stupid way.

[secondwind]

4. This was excellent. Well said, theneworiginal.

[MichMan]

5. Given his toxic nature in the polls, seems it would be in our interests to have him run again.

[theneworiginal]

11. He is divisive within the party now and his support is shrinking despite the noise.

That should get worse after they undress him at the Impeachment. You can't win a seat with 1/3 the vote.

It's worth mentioning again that for all of the RW headlines last week, Biden had possibly the best 1st week of any President ever. He basically said that "if you RW nut jobs want to caucus with tRump, we'll just run the country without you." The R's didn't seem to realize or care that policy and progress was happening without them. Biden appears to have little or no tolerance for their catering to an ex-president.

[Marie Marie]

6. They don't want to have to do any actual work in exchange for votes.

They are going after the low hanging fruit of the ill-informed yet easily manipulated Trump loyalists.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Democrats have to start winning state legislatures

Arizona, for example, now has two Democratic U.S. Senators but the legislature remains in GOP control. Republicans are going to use their control of state legislatures and governors to push more anti-voter Jim Crow laws to the full extent possible. With a solid majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, do not expect much relief there.

We need to learn how to win at every level, from school boards, to state seats to governorships.

[Tumbulu]

8. Exactly!

Well said, but until we get rid of hate AM radio, I don’t think the corrosive effect of immediate distrust of any and all government service will allow good people to stand a chance. And we are the good people, clearly.

[Sneederbunk]

9. But if he testifies, it will be the greatest TV since Evel Knievel.

[BainsBane]

10. You overestimate the American electorate