Charles Blow on impeachment: I'm tired of all the fear and trepidation

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51. well guess what

he ain't getting removed before 2020. So you would only do impeachment to have hearings and get information out, which you can as easily do without impeachment to the same positive effect.

I'm resistant because impeachment is a political process. Folks can argue some sort of moral angle, but at the end of the day, it's a purely political process. That means you need enough support of the people to avoid any political hits.

As we stand, right now, there are no polls that put impeachment over the low 40s in approval rating.
Until that number gets at or very close to 60, the public isn't ready for it.

You get there by laying the groundwork and doing investigations and THEN if you do it right and you put the information out, and the public wants it, you will see that number rise and you can justify a process that has been quite rarely and has never actually successfully removed a President. (the threat caused one to resign).

You jump right into it and you either:

1. Do it very quickly in which case folks say you rushed to it
2. Do it very slow and methodically in which case people say you are dragging it out

It's the same reason why you don't bring charges to trial against someone unless you've already done the investigative legwork.

We ALSO know there are several areas of criminality that Mueller didn't even touched. Those too need to be investigated and put together with what Mueller found.