Ok I must say I really wasn’t expecting this turn of events.
The Washington Post just released an interview with Nancy Pelosi where she was asked about impeaching Trump.
And she comes out completely against it, saying it’s too divisive and ‘he’s’ not worth it:
There have been increasing calls, including from some of your members, for impeachment of the president.
PELOSI: I’m not for impeachment. This is news. I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.
Wow. That’s a shocker.
Mollie Hemingway suggested this had a lot to do with Trump’s framing of their ‘impeachment’ agenda as ‘presidential harassment’:
This is why Trump repositioning their efforts as harassment, instead of impeachment, was politically savvy. It doesn’t matter if Dems oppose “impeachment” unless they are rejecting the actual harassment. If they embrace harassment, they still get the political downsides of it all
She might have a point. Trump embraced the government shutdown and took a lot of heat over it.
But I also think there could be more going on here. Right now the Democrat Party has become so extreme, from radical socialism to baby murder to their unwillingness to condemnt blatant anti-Semitism, that they are fracturing the voting base they need in order to win the presidency. As it stands now their chances of winning the presidency don’t look great, especially with so many voices unwilling to embrace capitalism. The last thing they need to add to all of this baggage is what Mollie suggested, the political downside to harassing the president.