Monday, February 3, 2020
The House Democrats Give Closing Arguments in the Impeachment Trial of D.J.Trump
Trump will be acquitted by the political party that's become as corrupt and disgraceful as he is.
Trump will be acquitted but not exonerated. He and the GOP suppressed vital evidence and would not allow witnesses.
No impeachment trial in the history of the U.S. ever suppressed witnesses and evidence.
It couldn't be any clearer why Trump and the GOP have done this. The witnesses and evidence would corroborate and prove Trump's guilt. Period.
No innocent person in the history of jurisprudence would prevent a witness or a piece of evidence to be introduced in that person's trial that could exonerate him or her.
Trump is guilty no matter what the corrupt Republican Senators do. All Americans know this.
With the Mitch McConnell led Senate, which has completely abdicated it's moral, legal, and democratic responsibilities, I fear we have only begun to see how Trump will get in bed with other like minded autocrats around the world.
How can checks and balances mean so little to the Republicans in the Senate? They have lost all pretense of caring about our country. How can we have confidence that the 2020 election will be fair? How much more damage will Trump do, and for what?
This exercise of power by the Republicans in the Senate - for what? What lofty purpose, what mission, what vision are they serving?
Since the 50s, as the older generation of conservatives die off, and each generation is replaced by one more progressive than the last, Republicans have been watching their base slowly crumble away.
At some point during the Bush era, this became strikingly clear, and in response, the Republican Party has engaged in everything from gerrymandering, to voter suppression, to denying appointments to the Supreme Court, to colluding with foreign governments -- anything to stay in power.
If they play fair, the GOP can’t win enough elections to continue to hold power at any level of government, and they know it. If Trump were convicted in the Senate and removed from office, it would take the party a bare minimum of 8-12 years to recover. By then the political landscape will be so different that it might be impossible for them to ever mobilize again as effectively as they are now.
The Republicans cannot win anymore, so they lie, cheat, and steal.
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Everything you said is true Shaw. EVERYTHING period. The bootlicking Trump syncopgants know it as well. But, they have freely chosen to support a criminal, a pathological liar, and a wanna be tyrant.
Americans in majority are smart folks. They know the truth and the real score. This majority will, in due time send the GD republican synchophants home to roost. The hardcore trumpers (30-40 percent) are so deluded there is no chance those trump sheeple will NEVER admit their gross error in judgement.
Republicans have been watching their base slowly crumble away
That's the fundamental reason why they're so scared of losing power. In very broad strokes, Republicans are the party of highly-religious white people, while Democrats are the party of non-whites and more secular white people. Non-whites and non-religious people are both growing as percentages of the population. Already Republicans can't win nationally without vote suppression, gerrymandering, and the Electoral College. And the next time Democrats control the presidency and both Houses, there's a lot we can do to put a stop to the first two of those things.
In short, the next time the Republicans lose power, they lose it forever.
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