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In reply to the discussion: Here's how tRump wins a second term [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,656 posts)(1) dropping the term "socialist" from our vocabulary altogether. This is not a socialist country. Neither are the Scandinavian countries some like to hold up as examples - they are capitalist democracies with strong social safety nets which have been approved by their people and for which their people are willing to be taxed. The word "socialism" is too infected with grossly incorrect notions of collective farms and gulags and other detritus of the Soviet Union, which far too many people believe. Drop it and call the Democratic economic vision something else.
(2) Hold investigative hearings as was done in Watergate using the Mueller report as a road map, as Mueller clearly intended. Make it clear that the goal is not to impeach per se, but to investigate. The Watergate hearings exposed Nixon's perfidy and his approval ratings dropped to about 25%. Impeachment and conviction can't happen unless the politicians see that enough voters want it to happen, and the voters won't want it to happen unless they see the evidence for themselves. The Mueller report by itself won't be enough.