Via Billy
The Senate Republican playbook should be put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
on mute and get this trial started. Pelosi and the Democrats have no say
in the matter. They don’t. And by withholding the articles of
impeachment against President Trump because they know it faces certain
death in the Republican Senate creates a new constitutional crisis of
its own. This isn’t about a fair trial. As
Wall Street Journal columnist
Kimberley Strassel noted, a trial would only further degrade their
position in the polls on this impeachment push. It was never popular
from the start, and now it’s underwater nationally. It’s especially not
popular in the key swing states that Democrats have to win in 2020.
I
think Democrats know this is a fiasco, the smart ones at least, but they
made a 2018 promise to the base to impeach the president. They have to
keep it. Strassel noted that Pelosi isn’t a scrub when it comes to
political strategy; she can hang in there with McConnell. But the goal
of this whole circus is to keep the idea of impeachment alive. It’s
“rolling impeachment,” as Strassel noted. And it’s cancerous to
constitutional order, but also the Senate GOP could enable it if they
think the end goal is to nab a fair trial (via
WSJ):
