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In reply to the discussion: I am about to give up, because I can't control it or anyone. [View all]peggysue2
(10,828 posts)We can rage into the night about the unfairness of it all but a good part of politics is controlling the narrative. The way we do that is ramping up the public hearings, hanging Trump's dirty laundry out for all to see and waiting for those polls numbers (already sinking; ISPOs had Trump at 37%) to plummet.
Last time I checked the polls indicated that 53% of Americans were against impeachment at this time. That doesn't mean impeachment is off the table but we need to use our ammunition effectively, smartly. Day-in, day-out public hearings will erode the Trumpster's support. Remember what they did to Hillary Clinton, nonstop? Remember how her numbers went from nearly 70% on leaving the State Dept to the point she was badly underwater in approval/disapproval numbers?
We can throw that strategy right back at them with real evidence.
2020 is looming and by softening Trump's national support Republicans will have to choose: keep a decaying albatross tied around their necks or throw him overboard in order to keep their jobs.
Either way, they're fucked.
As public hearings buzz, we can also ramp up our own positive agenda, things the electorate actually cares about: healthcare, voting rights, economic inequality, climate change, etc., etc., etc.
The situation has been bleak but that doesn't mean we can't get in front of it. We play our cards right, we'll have the advantage at election time, a chance to thoroughly repudiate the Trumpster and his rotten enablers.