Support for impeachment rivals levels during Donald Trump's first presidency, when he was impeached twice, and for impeaching Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal
So.... Everyone other than who supports Trump? I mean not really surprised there. The issue is there's still enough people in Congress that won't vote to impeach him. If they didn't impeach him after January 6th they ain't going to do it now.
This is another very interesting analysis that basically follows the current polling that Trump and his policies are very unpopular. Leading to the unpopularity of Republicans running in the midterm elections. Thanks
There shouldn't be an impeachment effort unless/until at least 75-80 senators are on board. Otherwise, it's a distraction. The fact that the number seeking impeachment only match previous failed attempts shows this.
On the other hand, impeaching cabinet members who can reasonably shown to have committed high crimes and misdemeanors -- sure.
The Senate was prepared to remove Nixon. But that was still a party with a stake in democracy. That party is long gone.
But. If we allow Congress to do nothing, we never have a chance to get the Republicans on the record. They will be able to weasel out and claim they bear no responsibility for Trump's disasters.
IMHO We owe it to the country to listen to the voters and to the future to etch the death of the GOP in stone for all to see.
Important to track, for sure. The take inside the epistemic beltway bubble is that impeachment only strengthened Trump, so it's pointless to try again -OR- impeachment is regrettably inevitable and he will definitely be acquitted, so cooler heads ought to focus on limiting damage/harm and picking the "right" impeachment battle.
IMHO, both these takes are wrong; polling like this provides some more evidence of that. Interested to see if support softens if we somehow escape Iran.
Side note - everyone from the fin bros of WallStreetBets to beltway politicos seem to be discounting the coming oil shock. Every serious person I've heard discuss this thinks we're in for a lot of economic disruption. Some disruption is already inevitable, but the longer the war goes on with the Strait of Hormuz closed, the more and more catastrophic it will become. The short-term Trump trade or TACO trade is keying off the weekend warrior motions and the renewed ceasefire, but the long-term outlook gets worse every day the strait remains closed. For polling purposes, if the straight remains closed much longer, I think we're about to see how durable that floor of 20-30% of "strong support," ride-or-die MAGA base voters really is.
So.... Everyone other than who supports Trump? I mean not really surprised there. The issue is there's still enough people in Congress that won't vote to impeach him. If they didn't impeach him after January 6th they ain't going to do it now.
This is another very interesting analysis that basically follows the current polling that Trump and his policies are very unpopular. Leading to the unpopularity of Republicans running in the midterm elections. Thanks
There shouldn't be an impeachment effort unless/until at least 75-80 senators are on board. Otherwise, it's a distraction. The fact that the number seeking impeachment only match previous failed attempts shows this.
On the other hand, impeaching cabinet members who can reasonably shown to have committed high crimes and misdemeanors -- sure.
The Senate was prepared to remove Nixon. But that was still a party with a stake in democracy. That party is long gone.
But. If we allow Congress to do nothing, we never have a chance to get the Republicans on the record. They will be able to weasel out and claim they bear no responsibility for Trump's disasters.
IMHO We owe it to the country to listen to the voters and to the future to etch the death of the GOP in stone for all to see.
The Senate has never voted to impeach a president in the country's history.
But with enough Democrats in Congress, we can put a stop to his bullshit agenda.
Important to track, for sure. The take inside the epistemic beltway bubble is that impeachment only strengthened Trump, so it's pointless to try again -OR- impeachment is regrettably inevitable and he will definitely be acquitted, so cooler heads ought to focus on limiting damage/harm and picking the "right" impeachment battle.
IMHO, both these takes are wrong; polling like this provides some more evidence of that. Interested to see if support softens if we somehow escape Iran.
Side note - everyone from the fin bros of WallStreetBets to beltway politicos seem to be discounting the coming oil shock. Every serious person I've heard discuss this thinks we're in for a lot of economic disruption. Some disruption is already inevitable, but the longer the war goes on with the Strait of Hormuz closed, the more and more catastrophic it will become. The short-term Trump trade or TACO trade is keying off the weekend warrior motions and the renewed ceasefire, but the long-term outlook gets worse every day the strait remains closed. For polling purposes, if the straight remains closed much longer, I think we're about to see how durable that floor of 20-30% of "strong support," ride-or-die MAGA base voters really is.
Exactly. Those people don't care if damage is done to anybody but them.