Lisnaholic

According to this guy's argument, Trump's conduct to date already justifies impeachment:-



My understanding is that there has to be much broader support for it, with politicians and public alike calling for impeachment, before any action is taken.

Alas, impeaching Trump wouldn't necessarily achieve much. I think the Republicans are treating Trump like a sacrificial pawn; put him out there, if he does some good for the cause, that's great. The day he is too toxic to be useful they'll throw him under the bus, because of course in this scenario the Republicans are playing chess, sitting on the sidewalk of a bus route.... Anyway, they'll just dust off their hands and try to push through many of the same policies with a less controvertial figurehead.

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Lisnaholic

Yes, ditto on both of those. An impeachment on shakey grounds would be really hurtful to the image of US democracy. An impeachment attempt that failed to impeach would be even worse.

I was surprised to learn about the whole Electoral College weighting of votes in the US, which seems very unfair to the big citydwellers on both coasts.
If it's any consolation, the UK also has a complex voting system which also skews the idea of one man, one vote. Politicians (the electoral losers, of course) regularly call for Proportional Representation, but it hasn't happened yet because every party that wins under the existing system defends the existing system, regardless of what they may have said when they were the opposition party.

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The Batlord

Our system exists because the rural South wouldn't have ratified the Constitution if they hadn't have had a voting counterweight against the more populous North. ****ty, especially since cities have an even greater share of the population today, but just a political necessity at the time.

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Anteater

I'd vote for a more honest version of Barack Obama or Trump when he was in his mid 30's (when his thinking was more flexible and he leaned more left than right).

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OccultHawk

His bitch ass is going to jail for treason and libel.

djchameleon

Well that's what happened with Bill Clinton. They just didn't have enough votes to impeach him successfully. It was pretty close though.

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Lisnaholic

That's interesting!
I used to think the Confederate flag was just a quaint bit of nostalgia, like humming along to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down or watching The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Turns out those southern sentiments are nearer the surface than I thought.

EDIT: OK, thanks DJ, so there's a precedent for a call for impeachment that doesn't go all the way...

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RoxyRollah

So .....a constitutional republic don't work for you?

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Frownland

Not really, no.

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rostasi

Rubio in 2016:

RUBIO: ...and obviously we all understand the importance of this presidential race.
I would just ask everybody this:
Can this country afford to have a president under investigation by the FBI?

AUDIENCE: No!

RUBIO: Think of the trauma that this would do to this country. <sic>