Analysis: What Elizabeth Warren gets wrong about impeachment
: “Members of Congress take an oath to uphold the Constitution and it is their constitutional duty to determine if Trump’s conduct merits impeachment, regardless of the political consequences.”
Americans who see Trump as a national emergency—and there are many, from leftists to never-Trump conservatives—have two real goals: first, increasing the chances of removing Trump from office in the short term, and second, strengthening the rule of law in the long term. Impeachment proceedings would set back the first goal and aren’t likely to advance the second.
The best assumption is that impeachment will make Trump more likely to win four more years in office. Evidence from around the world makes a compelling case that fighting right-wing authoritarians and populists on the grounds of their personal corruption or lawbreaking doesn’t get the job done.
If Trump’s first election led many of us to reasonably and belatedly downgrade our confidence in American exceptionalism—itif we don’t learn from oppositions who have tried corruption-centered strategies and failed. Democrats’ performance in the 2018 midterms, in fact, was a master class in successfully opposing right-populism: through a single-minded focus on its material consequences for voters.
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