I'm sorry. Are you under the impression Trump gives a fig about an effective government? I don't want to be too negative, but blogs based on the premise that any of our rules/customs still apply just feel irrelevant. There is no good faith here. Republicans may (or may not) be right that the things Trump did, did not in the most strict sense, call for impeachment. But they knew that if they didn't impeach him then, there was a fairly good chance we'd wind up here. And they didn't! So now the nation is a situation where continuation of the basic ideas of our country are dependent on a small group of Republicans being willing to sacrifice at least their short term political careers to preserve them--the same group that didn't impeach when it had the chance. I don't know what is worth saying at this point, but I sure don't have confidence that pretending anything like business as we knew it has leverage.
I'm sorry. Are you under the impression Trump gives a fig about an effective government? I don't want to be too negative, but blogs based on the premise that any of our rules/customs still apply just feel irrelevant. There is no good faith here. Republicans may (or may not) be right that the things Trump did, did not in the most strict sense, call for impeachment. But they knew that if they didn't impeach him then, there was a fairly good chance we'd wind up here. And they didn't! So now the nation is a situation where continuation of the basic ideas of our country are dependent on a small group of Republicans being willing to sacrifice at least their short term political careers to preserve them--the same group that didn't impeach when it had the chance. I don't know what is worth saying at this point, but I sure don't have confidence that pretending anything like business as we knew it has leverage.