for all the hype about impeachment, it's historically unlikely.
there have been only three significant presidents in impeachment history.
andrew johnson and bill clinton were impeached by the house, though neither was removed by the senate.
and richard nixon, of course, resigned rather than go through that ordeal.
in all three cases, each president faced a congress with both houses controlled by the opposition party.
impeachment is not a judicial act taken on by impartial jurists. it is fundamentally a political act taken on by political animals. and it's a hell of a lot easier to take such a drastic political step against a member of a different party than against the leader of your own party.
impeachment and removal would require active participation by a good number of republicans, who risk alienating a large number of their own voters. this is a tall order for republicans in congress.
yes, it is true that if donnie is impeached, we end up with pence as president. in terms of power, the republicans in congress are probably fine with this, but their voters are not at all likely to see it that way, at least not at this point.
therefore, in order to get republicans in congress to go along with impeachment, there need to be a very significant wedge driven between donnie and republican voters.
it has to be bad enough that republican voters will thanks their congressmen for impeaching donnie. this is not going to be achieved by mere election shenanigans, dirty tricks, or even criminal acts committed in the name of getting a republican elected. that stuff doesn't bother republican voters in the least.
nor do they care about emoluments or talking to russia or misogyny or racism.
what they do care about is the big business and the super-rich. if donnie pisses them off and ceo's start saying we need to dump trump, that'll shift the dialog in a way that could turn republican voters against donnie.
his protectionist bent seems most likely to cause this. if donnie is successful in getting protectionist measure through and other countries retaliate, that could seriously hurt international trade and piss big companies and rich people off bigly.
short of that, it's hard for me to see republican voters turning on him.
problem is, most protectionist measures require congress to pass legislation to enact such things, and it's then hard for republicans who voted for the protectionist measures that caused the problems to then impeach donnie for something they agreed to.
i'm all for impeachment and removal of this scumbag, but frankly, i don't see it happening.
maybe, maybe, we can win bigly in 2018, but i'm not holding my breath. but, if we can get democratic majorities, at least in the house, then impeachment becomes much more likely.
until then, i really don't see it happening.
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or Pootie comes here. 
