Three months later, when Trump equated white-supremacist protesters in Charlottesville with those who had rallied against them, Green decided to take formal action: "That's when I realized he was unfit to be President. He was converting his bigotry into American policy." When the resolution came up for a vote, he said, "I did not lobby anyone, because, quite frankly, it's a question of conscience." He pressed for the second vote after Trump referred to Haiti and other predominantly black nations as "Shithole countries." Green understood that his call for impeachment was symbolic, but he expressed satisfaction with the number of votes he received-nearly a third of the Democratic members of the House.
Today, the impeachment of Donald Trump exists on the brink of plausibility.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, told me, "I don't like to talk about impeachment." She explained, "Impeachment is not a political tool. It has to be based on just the law and the facts. When I was Speaker, people wanted me to impeach George Bush for the war in Iraq because it was based on false information, but you can't just go from one impeachment to the next. When we are in the majority, we are going to try to be unifying, and there is no way to do impeachment in a bipartisan way right now." The numbers back up Pelosi's wariness.
And the mounting evidence against the President, raises the question of whether the drive for impeachment is more likely to result in Trump's removal from office or in a Democratic civil war.
Pelosi told me that Nadler is "a champion for civil liberties and civil rights. He will have a long agenda as chairman, and impeachment is the least of it-despite what his constituents, and my constituents, probably want." Nadler voted against both of Green's impeachment resolutions.
"There is right now enormous energy on the far left. They hate the President. They are consumed with Trump derangement syndrome." He continued, "For many on the right, and many in the middle, not having the country consumed by impeachment proceedings and not seeing us lose the progress the country has made under President Trump is also a powerful motivator." Cruz doesn't believe Pelosi's statements that she does not currently support impeachment.
"They say we are normalizing impeachment. We are not normalizing impeachment. If we ignore what Donald Trump has done, what we're doing is normalizing his behavior." Asked at one point about the last election, Steyer said, "Two people won the 2016 election: Bernie Sanders, who is not a Democrat, and Donald Trump, who is not a Republican." Steyer also funds, to the tune of thirty-two million dollars, a voter-registration project aimed at young people, called NextGen America, that is ostensibly nonpartisan.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/will-the-fervor-for-impeachment-start-a-democratic-civil-war
Today, the impeachment of Donald Trump exists on the brink of plausibility.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, told me, "I don't like to talk about impeachment." She explained, "Impeachment is not a political tool. It has to be based on just the law and the facts. When I was Speaker, people wanted me to impeach George Bush for the war in Iraq because it was based on false information, but you can't just go from one impeachment to the next. When we are in the majority, we are going to try to be unifying, and there is no way to do impeachment in a bipartisan way right now." The numbers back up Pelosi's wariness.
And the mounting evidence against the President, raises the question of whether the drive for impeachment is more likely to result in Trump's removal from office or in a Democratic civil war.
Pelosi told me that Nadler is "a champion for civil liberties and civil rights. He will have a long agenda as chairman, and impeachment is the least of it-despite what his constituents, and my constituents, probably want." Nadler voted against both of Green's impeachment resolutions.
"There is right now enormous energy on the far left. They hate the President. They are consumed with Trump derangement syndrome." He continued, "For many on the right, and many in the middle, not having the country consumed by impeachment proceedings and not seeing us lose the progress the country has made under President Trump is also a powerful motivator." Cruz doesn't believe Pelosi's statements that she does not currently support impeachment.
"They say we are normalizing impeachment. We are not normalizing impeachment. If we ignore what Donald Trump has done, what we're doing is normalizing his behavior." Asked at one point about the last election, Steyer said, "Two people won the 2016 election: Bernie Sanders, who is not a Democrat, and Donald Trump, who is not a Republican." Steyer also funds, to the tune of thirty-two million dollars, a voter-registration project aimed at young people, called NextGen America, that is ostensibly nonpartisan.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/will-the-fervor-for-impeachment-start-a-democratic-civil-war
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