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In reply to the discussion: So what is the hold up on impeachment? [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,399 posts)They're going to milk his Presidency for all that they can squeeze out of it (i.e. tax cuts, ACA repeal, "tax reform", restructuring government more to their liking). I don't think that they've thought too much beyond that. The best thing that we could do is show up in a massive show of resistance in 2018 and take away Republican power in one or both chambers of Congress- or at least thin out their ranks so as to make their agenda die a slow, agonizing death- until we can remove Trump electorally in 2020. I want Trump gone. I really do. But removing him too soon (or at all) would probably help the Republicans politically, because then we'd get Pence and the MSM would proclaim him an "adult" and laud the Republicans for being "responsible" and then most people currently energized by Trump would probably breathe a sigh of relief and go back to sleep until 2020 and then Pence would be looked at as a "reasonable" Republican candidate for 2020, which would make him harder for us to beat, not that he's any great prize (he's a total douche), but he's got the right kind of political cred to re-unite the Republican Party, bring the "Never Trumpers" back into the GOP fold, and present a "business as usual" face to the country and to the world. I say that we figure out a way to contain Trump and his damage until we can remove him and his ENTIRE (mis-)Administration in 2020.