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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nI live in a deep blue bubble where people have been\njumping on the impeachment bandwagon for a long time. I mainline Pod Save America<\/a><\/em>,\nand constantly read in \u201cWhat a Day<\/a>,\u201d\nCrooked Media<\/a>\u2019s online newsletter,\npro-impeachment arguments and lamentations about Nancy Pelosi\u2019s caution. I love\nMichelle Goldberg, Charles Blow, and Jamelle Bouie, all New York Times<\/em> columnists who favor impeachment and are passionate\nabout removing Trump from office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I share that passion. But until recently I have not\nbeen persuaded that impeachment is the right strategy. I distrust the\npreaching-to-the-choir fervor among many proponents, and I want to tear my hair\nout when I hear, \u201cI don\u2019t care if we lose seats, it\u2019s the moral thing to do!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n As someone who spent a lot of time canvassing in a swing district in the run-up to the mid-terms, I can attest that people outside of deep blue bubbles care about healthcare, jobs, and traffic far more than impeachment, and that they tend to give the President the benefit of the doubt even if they don\u2019t like his blowhard style. Nancy Pelosi has been right to worry about the vulnerability of Freshman Democrats from such districts who constitute the bulk of last year\u2019s flipped seats. Like Pelosi, I have believed that the President wants to goad Democrats into a trap, that thorough investigations in the House should proceed, and that Trump and his entire party of enablers are best impeached at the polls<\/a>. Plus, the prospect of a President Pence has scared me even more than the current arsonist-in-chief, who at least keeps people alarmed enough to actively work to defeat him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My internal needle on impeachment has been changing, though. Trump\u2019s continuing defiance of laws and norms, completely supported by the Dereliction-of-Duty Republicans, have stymied other options to hold him accountable, and we can\u2019t continue with this erratic sociopath until November 2020 in what Pod Save<\/em>‘s Dan Pfeiffer calls \u201cImpeachment Purgatory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The silver lining of Trump\u2019s presidency is that you don\u2019t have to wait that long for his next self-destructive eruption. Now, thanks to the bravery of an intelligence whistleblower, clear lawbreaking by the Administration’s obstruction of the complaint\u2019s delivery to Congress, and Trump\u2019s public confession of soliciting foreign interference from the Ukrainian president for his own political gain in the 2020 election, there\u2019s a fresh and clear-cut display of impeachable offenses. The latest revelations <\/a> provide the hook to act now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s time. \u201cWhat took you so long?\u201d some might say.\nPerhaps. But I prefer to think of it as \u201cNow more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ITMFA:\nImpeach the Motherfucker Already<\/em>. I snapped that photo at\nthe end of May in Oakland. I wasn\u2019t there yet. But I\u2019m there now. Even if the Senate acquits,\nget every Republican on record. Then impeach at the polls. Every last one of\nthem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I live in a deep blue bubble where people have been jumping on the impeachment bandwagon for a long time. I mainline Pod Save America, and constantly read in \u201cWhat a Day,\u201d Crooked Media\u2019s online newsletter, pro-impeachment arguments and lamentations … Continue reading