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It’s a lose-lose for the Dems. Impeachment won’t get rid of Trump, and not trying will piss off activist Democrats. I don’t know why, but Trump always ends up as the winner in all of these situations, no matter what he does.

No, it is not a lose-lose for the Dems. You’re likely right that impeachment won’t get rid of Trump. But it will put his criminal acts directly in front of the American people for a solid 6-9 months, leading up to an election. It also puts Republicans on the spot for condoning his criminal acts leading up to that aforementioned election.

Trump is not Clinton. He does not have the job approval ratings that Clinton did. And his crimes are significantly worse than Clinton’s. He’s not going to get the benefit of the split decision Clinton got in the court of public opinion (high job approval ratings, low personal approval ratings).

Most likely, Trump is going to get 40% of the vote in 2020, because that seems to be the low water mark for any major party presidential nominee in a two-person race in the modern era. The calculus at this point is how do the Dems get their 40% out and also convince the middle 20% that Trump is toxic? If Trump is, truly, as bad as we have all been saying since that golden escalator ride four years ago, then a legitimate impeachment process is not only the best way to accomplish that, it’s flat out the right thing to do.

Otherwise we are back to square one where one party deserves to lose and the other doesn’t deserve to win.