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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust a hunch but i think Trump jumped the shark on Ukraine.
Yeah i know we have thought this before but this feels different. Just a hunch.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,719 posts)And the base could care less. How many millions is that again (40?)
Sienna86
(2,148 posts)This may be the final straw.
safeinOhio
(32,658 posts)Just a little more.
meadowlander
(4,393 posts)(I.e. approving the additional funds for election security). He's obviously more worried about this one than anything in the past.
oasis
(49,365 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)cab67
(2,992 posts)Throughout 2017, I thought Republicans in Congress would see just how toxic Trump is and want him gone long before the 2018 midterms. I thought they'd see the inevitable loss of the House, and possibly even the Senate, and take steps to stop the rot before it got too far.
Most of them probably knew full well how badly 2018 would go for their party. Many of them probably wouldn't have been sorry to see Trump out of the White House. The problem is the primary system. Trump's base wouldn't care if he ate a bowl of homestyle kitten stew on live television. And Republicans can't win their primaries without it. It's too small to carry many Republicans in general elections, but they'd never get to the general election without placating it.
Until Republicans accept the fact that their party can only survive if it suffers major losses in 2020, thereby defanging this execrable base, they'll have to have their heads so far up Trump's butt that they can see his vocal chords.
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)another scandal, cabinet member replacement, resignation, ivanka scandal, etc.
William Seger
(10,778 posts)... but there's been so much shit, I can't even remember now what it was about.
Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)FakeNoose
(32,613 posts)... so now we know who gets thrown under the bus when the time comes.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Except for bankruptcies, lies and wives, there are so many of those that he can walk his orange ass across (or use a golf cart, which he would).
Lucky Luciano
(11,252 posts)You know something like that is coming.
Catch2.2
(629 posts)We'll see if the Dems actually grow a backbone and od the right thing this time!
CaptainTruth
(6,582 posts)US v Nixon, 1974, 9-0 SCOTUS decision that Nixon must comply with a subpoena & turn over the Watergate recordings.
Let's just hope there are Trump-Zelensky recordings, & they're subpoenaed.
dchill
(38,464 posts)...jumps him.
Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)Republicans don't care what he does, and Nancy seems pretty locked in to not impeaching him. If she were to start pushing for impeachment, I feel that most Dems would follow her lead.