Part of the problem with impeachment strategy on the part of the Dems was the same as the strategy against Clinton used by the Repubs: when the votes aren’t there, it will never end well.
In the case of Clinton, the Repubs should have settled for a censure, given his actions did not meet the litmus test of being a high crime (nor even a misdemeanor!)
In the last two Trump impeachments, the votes were just not there -nor are they now for the new one being discussed!
So what’s to be done? When the threshold number of votes are not there, the Dems should issue a public letter signed by all or most Dem congress members to the Repubs offering a commitment on supporting an impeachment, with a list of stated reasons for the Repubs to consider; in this case now:
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disregard for federal court orders and a rule of law;
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abuse of tariffs;
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abuse of covert war powers (Greenland…);
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violation of emoluments (BRIBEcoins, and Trump’s INEVITABLE veto of legislation requiring decentralized id and legal intermediaries for digital currencies…);
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unlawfully constraining Congressional spending that had been previously voted on and approved; and
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abuse of the War Powers Act.
Once you do that, the Repubs then completely own him. There can be no later saying by them, “Hey, we didn’t support THAT!” And the Dems don’t piss off voters with the time and expense of a procedure that is guaranteed to go nowhere. When the Repubs have had enough, should they have enough, they can always publicly signal to the Dems that the impeachment party should get started.
And spare me the reasoning of a formal impeachment that is certain to fail being a vote of conscience -the Repubs have demonstrated in spades that they will have no shame in defending Trump, just as the Dems have demonstrated they will have no shame in putting all expenses on the backs of workers and very little on the backs of megacorporations, nor in enabling genocidal Zionist actions. An impeachment will accomplish nothing but piss off voters, unless the votes are there for it.
[Should the Dems draft such an impeachment compact, they should also tack on an invitation to pass an amendment to limit presidential pardons to 1,000 per term…]