Tuesday, July 23, 2019

It's past time





Here's a great interview with Adam Jentleson, who worked for Harry Reid, about how the Democrats (and particularly Nancy Pelosi) are missing the mark with their current strategy.

And Jentleson's June GQ article: The Political Costs of Not Impeaching Trump.

Here's one point in it that I hadn't previously considered:
Trump’s weaponized Department of Justice under Barr, who has shown himself to be Trump’s eager and obedient partner in abusing the power of the state to advance the president’s political interests, will inevitably invent a pretext for investigating the Democratic nominee. Democrats should consider whether they’d rather engage that fight against a president who has been impeached for serious crimes, or against a president strengthened by the de facto exoneration bestowed when his opponents declined to pursue the evidence against him.

  GQ
Start proceedings now.

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