re: #101 calochortus

And what if they start impeachment hearings and the administration still stonewalls them and things get tied up in court for months. Will people in flyover country suddenly marching in the streets for greater transparency? If Trump is impeached will he be convicted in the Senate? (Probably not) Will that somehow convince people Trump is a crook?
None of us are psychic. I understand your frustration, and respect your take on the subject. Mine is just a bit different.

Being a recovering conspiracy theorist, I tend to discount grand plans that see people slowly being worked into inevitable doom in favor of believing that the ones in charge are gambling that their actions (even inaction) will have a favorable outcome or at least break even. And that’s what I see here, Pelosi and the rest of the leadership gambling that either they will land on a bombshell so massive that the polls will flip in favor of impeachment or that Trump’s absolute refusal to cooperate will hurt him politically.