17th October 2019, 10:01 PM
Now Trump has sunk to the point of openly supporting Turkey's ethnic cleansing of Kurds from parts of northeastern Syria. Openly and repeatedly. Somehow he's managed to come up with a way to sink even lower! It truly is kind of amazing... I mean, sure, as we see with his elementary-school-tier letter to Turkish leader Erdogan Trump is barely literate, but that is no excuse for that level of horrible sentiment. Even the House and Senate Republicans are on record opposing this, but I guess there's nothing they can do to reverse it... unfortunate.
Seriously, I know it will take a while to progress, but can't we impeach him already? Once the House impeaches him there will be a Senate trial -- enough Senate Republicans are rejecting the idea of just dismissing the charges that it will happen -- but no, I still expect them to let him off. That is bad for the more vulnerable Republicans either way, though-- polling shows that my Senator Susan Collins gets hurt significantly in the Republican primary if she supports impeachment, for example, and her numbers there are already poor enough that she could lose in the primary, but gets hurt almost as badly in the general if she votes not to impeach, as moderates who previously have voted for her see who she really is and finally vote for someone else. I hope this kind of polling holds up all the way to next years' elections!
Seriously, I know it will take a while to progress, but can't we impeach him already? Once the House impeaches him there will be a Senate trial -- enough Senate Republicans are rejecting the idea of just dismissing the charges that it will happen -- but no, I still expect them to let him off. That is bad for the more vulnerable Republicans either way, though-- polling shows that my Senator Susan Collins gets hurt significantly in the Republican primary if she supports impeachment, for example, and her numbers there are already poor enough that she could lose in the primary, but gets hurt almost as badly in the general if she votes not to impeach, as moderates who previously have voted for her see who she really is and finally vote for someone else. I hope this kind of polling holds up all the way to next years' elections!