Impeaching a president is very unusual and requires really strong evidence, shared with all the voters to succeed. In all the long history of the American Republic we only tried impeachment three times, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. Only the Nixon impeachment succeeded. Nixon resigned the presidency before the Senate acted, but I will count that as a successful impeachment. I surely do remember the build up to Nixon's resignation, hours and hours of Congressional testimony on TV, the Saturday night massacre, John Dean, the tapes, Judge Maximum John, and many more. All this had me, and the rest of the country convinced that Nixon had to go.
Let is look at today's impeachment against Trump. Congressional hearing conducted in secret. Unnamed witnesses, a highly unreliable committee chairman, no House vote to impeach or even to investigate. Nothing that is gonna convince the average voter that Trump has to go.
The voters need the strongest and clearest evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors" before they will go along with impeachment. If the voters are not onboard, they will remember in November, and vote stupid Congresscritters out of office. The more intelligent Congresscritters know this.
The democrats ought to be doing Trump's impeachment like Watergate, lots of TV, lots of public testimony, lots of publicity everywhere. All I can figure is that they really don't have anything on Trump.
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