In the end, it is a real possibility that impeachment will fatally wound the presidential campaign of Joe Biden and leave Liz Warren as the party’s nominee. Warren will have to win Pennsylvania after promising to “ban fracking everywhere,” and win the rest of middle America after tweeting things like, “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy.”
She’ll also have to defend stripping Americans of their health care and replacing it with a Medicare-for-All plan that cannot possibly be paid for without taxing the middle class into oblivion.
The entire impeachment saga will be politically destabilizing, and for what? The Republican Senate is likely to acquit the president and then it will be up to elected Democrats to explain to voters why they, the elected elite, deserved the privilege of throwing the president out of office more than the citizenry, who will be given the opportunity just a handful of months later at the polls.
If Congress’ self-serving attempt to dunk on Trump in impeachment in 2019 ultimately results in a Trump re-election in November of 2020, that will be a self-inflicted event and Americans will have little inclination to tolerate kvetching about the electoral college or Russian tampering.
http://www.lowellsun.com/fallout-from-impeachment-will-be-felt-far-and-wide
Last week, the Senate confirmed Donald Trump’s 159th federal judge:
—112 on district courts
—45 on circuit courts
—2 on Supreme Court
Nearly all are in their 30s, 40s, 50s. This conservative bunch, picked with help from the Federalist Society, will shape US law for generations.