By Ted Glick
It is truly scary to see Mafioso Don rant and rave these days, as impeachment becomes a near-certainty. Conviction not so much, but impeachment almost a lock. When the guy is openly calling for not just Ukraine but China to help him try to find dirt on Biden, the Democrats have no choice but to slap him down.
Hardly anyone thinks the Senate will convict him, for good reasons, but it’s not impossible. When the Democrats began impeachment hearings against Nixon in 1973, he was coming off an election where he had won 49 of 50 states, and he had an approval rating in the high 60’s percent. But after the exposures via Congressional hearings of Tricky Dick’s underhandedness, lying and, especially, destruction of evidence, his approval rating plunged to 25%, and he was done, resigning in disgrace.
This crop of Republicans are more hardline, and they’re backed up by Fox News and other media that they didn’t have back then, but on the other hand how many of them truly want to be saddled with an impeached Trump hanging around their neck come elections next November? And it is not insignificant that there are internal divisions at Fox News, with at least two of their commentators, Shepard Smith and Neil Cavuto, publicly refusing to go along with the party line of lip-locking on Trump’s ring.
Looking at the bigger picture, what happens with the economy could end up being decisive as far as conviction. The fact that unexpected weakness in the manufacturing sector has been revealed at the same time as the recent Ukrainegate revelations is not good news for Republicans. Absent an economy that is doing relatively well, though clearly majorly and structurally unequal and discriminatory, Trump and his minions are in very deep political doo-doo. No President has ever gone through an entire four year term with approval ratings under 50%, but that sure looks like what’ll happen for this one.
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Hardly anyone thinks the Senate will convict him, for good reasons, but it’s not impossible. When the Democrats began impeachment hearings against Nixon in 1973, he was coming off an election where he had won 49 of 50 states, and he had an approval rating in the high 60’s percent. But after the exposures via Congressional hearings of Tricky Dick’s underhandedness, lying and, especially, destruction of evidence, his approval rating plunged to 25%, and he was done, resigning in disgrace.
This crop of Republicans are more hardline, and they’re backed up by Fox News and other media that they didn’t have back then, but on the other hand how many of them truly want to be saddled with an impeached Trump hanging around their neck come elections next November? And it is not insignificant that there are internal divisions at Fox News, with at least two of their commentators, Shepard Smith and Neil Cavuto, publicly refusing to go along with the party line of lip-locking on Trump’s ring.
Looking at the bigger picture, what happens with the economy could end up being decisive as far as conviction. The fact that unexpected weakness in the manufacturing sector has been revealed at the same time as the recent Ukrainegate revelations is not good news for Republicans. Absent an economy that is doing relatively well, though clearly majorly and structurally unequal and discriminatory, Trump and his minions are in very deep political doo-doo. No President has ever gone through an entire four year term with approval ratings under 50%, but that sure looks like what’ll happen for this one.
Click here for the full article.
Source: tedglick.com
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