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Impeachment is too important to leave to Congress — it’s going to take mass mobilization
Vox ^ | October 18, 2019 | Matthew Yglesias

Posted on 10/18/2019 8:01:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Watergate is the ur-text for how Americans imagine the defeat of a sitting president, but it shouldn’t be how to think about the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Watergate was a formative political experience for many of the older Democrats who run the House of Representatives these days. And the semi-fictionalized version of the scandal portrayed on film in All the President’s Men is an emotional and intellectual touchstone for many journalists. To this day, it’s conventional to denote the existence of a political scandal by appending “-gate” to a noun, as if “Watergate” had to with water rather than originating with a burglary at the Watergate Hotel.

1973 was a long time ago. The party system, the judiciary, and the media environment have evolved so much that there are no inferences to be applied to the present day — period.

American elites rarely seem to do this, but they should consider the lesson that toppled Mariano Rajoy’s corrupt right-wing government in Spain in 2018, Park Geun-hye’s corrupt right-wing government in South Korea in 2017, and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson’s corrupt right-wing government in Iceland in 2016: Large-scale public protests work.

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antifa; coup; impeachment; insurrection; mobrule; protests; resistance; sixthamendment
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the immortal words of Gary Wright “Dream on”.


41 posted on 10/19/2019 5:08:20 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: datura

Just send it libtards.


And pack a lunch.


42 posted on 10/19/2019 5:09:33 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Watergate is what they have based their power on for 45 years.

The Media showed they could take down a president in a Media Coup.

Politicians feared the media. They feared the media much more than the electorate, because the media told the electorate what to think, by controlling what they knew.

Technology and building resentment against media manipulation lead to Donald Trump's election.

The dam was cracked in the Republican revolution of 1994, and it had been breaking for 22 years.

Donald Trump's talent set was able to take advantage of that.

43 posted on 10/19/2019 5:50:25 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Nothingburger
I don’t see it. I would welcome counter arguments, even of the gloom and doom variety.

It's a waste of time trying to convince someone of something they're convinced is not true.

I see all kinds of possibilities. Use your imagination.

Patriots will not look to confront the strength of the other side. They will do everything they can to avoid a fair fight.

So will the Left. Again I say, use your imagination. I guarantee they are.

44 posted on 10/19/2019 1:11:40 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: Nothingburger
Is there any chance that the Left could cause some military units to mutiny?

You can take it to the bank that the vast majority of flag and field grade officers are very left leaning. At best, they may sit it out. At worst, they will do what Pelosi and crew direct.

45 posted on 10/19/2019 6:44:33 PM PDT by damper99
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To: JennysCool

When it starts, them scattering won’t do them any good. By then, they will have so enraged our side to the point that we are insane with rage and blood lust. It will be very bloody with no quarter given or no quarter asked. Until the blood lust is satisfied.


46 posted on 10/19/2019 7:04:30 PM PDT by sport
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To: JennysCool

We can and will go into the basements.


47 posted on 10/19/2019 7:07:26 PM PDT by sport
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