re: #121 Blind Frog Belly White

Impeachment being more a political process than a legal one is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, you really don’t need absolute evidence of violating the criminal code. On the other, even if you have it but can’t get 2/3 of the Senate to convict, you end up at a minimum wasting your time and possibly convincing a big chunk of the electorate that you’re just trying to undo an election you didn’t win.

Arguably, Bill Clinton should have resigned, because his impeachment was widely, and I think correctly, seen as a nakedly political attempt to undo the election of somebody the GOP really hated, the culmination of a years long smearfest by the Right. And the way it played out essentially poisoned Impeachment as a remedy for anything but maybe the President shooting an innocent person on live TV.

Otoh
Trump isn’t Clinton in personality or as presidential material

And what trump has done is light-years from Clinton’s

Clinton lied and hid an affair
Trump is purposely or not taking a wrecking ball to the Constitution and rule of law. And everybody, including the feckless Rs know it