Will impeachment backfire on Democrats? Not if they do it right.

6/16/19
 
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from The Washington Post,
6/16/19:

The Clinton scandal causes Democrats to fear backlash if they impeach President Trump.

Until recently, you could have put me in that camp. When special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report documented Trump’s efforts to obstruct the investigation into Russian subversion of the 2016 election, my revulsion was matched only by a sick sense of hopelessness.

Trump should be held accountable, but impeachment would backfire on Democrats, right?

Then, in an interview Wednesday with ABC News, Trump said there would be nothing wrong with accepting damaging information about an election opponent from a foreign government. “They have information — I think I’d take it,” the president said, essentially encouraging foreign adversaries to help him win reelection.

This is a dangerous and unacceptable precedent: Unless Democrats and Republicans in Congress impeach Trump, every future president has grounds to ask foreign adversaries to launch covert operations against his or her political rivals in the United States.

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