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It's not stupid if, like I said weeks ago, the entire point is spectacle. It was never about getting him actually removed, because, on its face, the Ukraine incident is not enough to convince Senate Republicans. This is about 1. Trying to make Trump look bad to the public. 2. Finding excuses to...

Fun fact: he isn't impeached until they send the articles to the Senate.

The Republicans survived 1998, and the Democrats survived 1994. This will be a problem for the Democrats if there's a preference cascade regarding The Narrative (TM). Which I think would require a lot of people going to jail first.

I listened to a bit of it (I think it was Vindman testifying) on NPR Tuesday. What I caught seemed pretty humdrum business, except for portraying Trump as convinced the previous Ukranian government tried to screw him. Together with Manafort being a US government fixer in Ukraine, if Trump...

The polling appears to support this. It still galls me that they managed to co-opt Drudge, though.

A single data point: My wife hates Trump. Well and truly despised him on multiple levels, thinks the pee-pee tapes are out there somewhere, etc. Even she thinks very skeptically of the current impeachment push.

The intent is to make him look bad enough to lose the election. That's it. I think it's (extremely) unlikely that they've got the kind of dirt it will take to get Senate Republicans to agree to the impeachment resolution. Whatever is dug, it doesn't matter if it's true or fake or criminal...

In terms of effects, conservatives have few greater benefactors than Pelosi. Not what she's tried for, but hey...