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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump won't be convicted in the Senate, and that's okay. [View all]
At some point, you have to cut your losses:
* You cannot convince the hard-core Trump-voters to vote democratic because they have a cult-mindset: Their beliefs are a part of their persona. Any criticism of their beliefs is taken as an attack on them as a person.
* You cannot convince republican Senators to convict and impeach Trump, because they all have seen what happens to Republicans who criticize Trump: Trump, the RNC and their oh-so-loyal republican fellows destroy the political career of everyone who dares to oppose the Fuhrer. Just look at what they did to McCain and Walsh.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Why should the Democrats fight a losing battle? Why should we worry about decisions that have already been made?
The goal of this impeachment-effort is not to impeach Trump. It has two entirely different goals:
1. Get the facts out to the american people.
2. Get Republicans on the record defending Trump.
Trump has already gotten the Republicans in so much shit: the border-wall is not coming, his tax-cut produced too much debt and too little economic growth, he's at war with the generals of the US military, he's at war with career-officials in US law-enforcement, Evangelicals are going to ever-more-ridiculous lengths to justify their support for him, the US has reached a new low in geopolitical power... And no one is talking any more about Trump's healthcare-reform or "Infrastructure"-week.
The republican voters who voted for him holding their nose are already starting to break away.
He has made it impossible for any decent person to defend him... And THIS is exactly the situation BOTH he AND the Democrats are maneuvering the Republicans into:
Defend the indefensible.
Do not defend the indefensible and the RNC will destroy you.
Defend the indefensible and the voters will destroy you.
Choose.