His idea wasn’t radical. It was completely mischaracterized purposely. He split the narrow “quid pro quo” idea into an even more narrow three types of motives for a quid pro quo and expanded on the “for political benefits” idea. He then argued that you would have to make the case that he ONLY acted for political purposes. He said, since he thinks his re-election is in the national interest he can’t be seen as doing something for PURELY political benefits without benefiting the country. He concludes by saying that’s why impeachment based on dual motives is a bad idea and doesn’t actually make any sense. Nothing radical about it
I am not characterizing it as radical
I am telling you what PHILBIN said.
Last Night
Schiff pounced it on it as I knew he would
Yes, that was my take on it as well.