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In reply to the discussion: Trump won't be convicted in the Senate, and that's okay. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Not unless the senators' own power was endangered by not convicting, and that hasn't happened. Not yet. We knew impeachment would cause conservative voters to flock to Trump with passionately increased loyalty.
And we also knew that removing Trump would leave in power the massive and accelerating Republican corruption and authoritarianism that spawned him. It's dangerous to leave Trump in power, but there would also be gravely increased danger in removing him while empowering the rest to control national power.
On the bright side, now that we've lined Republican dominoes up on the national stage and started them tumbling, I'm hopeful for a devastating cascade over coming months of further revelations of corruption and betrayal by no means all related to Trump-Ukraine.
Pelosi said that all Trump's roads lead to Putin. Well, these days a LOT of Republican roads lead to Putin, to attacks on our own democracy, to massive election theft, to terrifying signs of growing kleptocracy, theocracy and archconservative fascism under the Republican banner.