We were NEVER going to get a conviction. We WILL however

[Baltimike]

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ban him from ever seeking office again.

It's worth it for that. The conservative press (and ALL press that is "for profit" is indeed CONSERVATIVE...follow their contributions) will absolutely portray this as "Democrats is disarray"

Don't fall for it.

He will be banned forever, that makes it worth it

UPDATE: I was wrong about this OP. He as to be convicted in order to be banned, and that sucks to high Heaven, but I was wrong, and need to say so.

[femmedem]

1. Unfortunately the vote to bar someone from holding office is only taken after conviction.

But plenty of evidence against him will come out.

Those Republicans: what weasels, trying to dodge having to say whether they actually think Trump is guilty.

[Demsrule86]

2. That is not true. He can only be banned if he is convicted.

[lame54]

14. I think they mean the exposure of what and how it happened...

Will kill any chance of support

We'll see

[Whiskeytide]

16. I think it will increase his support. The hard-core love ...

... that he’s a dick. The dickier he acts, the more they love and worship him.

[lame54]

17. Weird, isn't it?

[Whiskeytide]

19. It really is. It's a little scary how ...

... many non-critical thinkers are running around in our midst. I’m not a genius, but I can put two and two together and not come up with raping children and eating babies in the basement of a pizza joint.

[lame54]

20. To be fair - word math problems are tough

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Then rub the GOP's nose in Trump's mess.

Make them explain why they think it's OK for a president to encourage sedition and insurrection and the murder of a police officer. Make them carry Trump's stank on them forever.

[Hoyt]

4. He has to be convicted first to be banned from running. He's not going

to run anyway in 2024. He’ll likely be dead. At worst, he’ll make noise about running but won’t make a real effort in primary.

[NurseJackie]

15. Here's hoping.

[Whiskeytide]

18. He didn't make any effort in 2016. They gravitated ...

... to his faux populism, and surprised everyone even though he didn’t do anything except tweet and make the political show circuit rounds. And insult the other candidates.

He’ll do rallies because he gets high on that shit. And his 35% will fall right back into place. Тяцмр‘s narcissism makes him the perfect candidate because THAT’s all he wants to do. He doesn’t want the job. Never did. He just wanted the adulation.

[Hoyt]

22. He'll split GOPers to our advantage. He won in 2016 became Dems were split.

He’s gone.

[Whiskeytide]

26. Maybe. But he just allegedly got ...

... 74m votes. If the party wasn’t already split in 2020, how would they be split in 2024?

We saw it happen in real time. EVERY establishment republican derided Тяцмр in the 2016 primaries. Every single one of them. Some viciously. Until they started taking the temperature of their rabble. It’s no accident that Sessions was the first member of the GOP old guard to endorse Тяцмр. He was watching his constituents. He saw them turn to Тяцмр, and turned with them for self preservation. Eventually, they all turned. They had to.

There is no logical reason they won’t do it again. Тяцмр has done nothing to lose them as far as I can see. He lost the election, sure. But they believe it was stolen, right? He failed to take down the pedo ring. That just means he’s needed more than ever. He started an insurrection. But they think it didn’t go far enough.

I hope you’re right and I’m wrong. But Тяцмр woke their beast. And until he’s dead, he’s a threat to stoke those same fires. (And I’m not sure even dying ends it - I mean, Elvis is still alive working at a gas station in West Virginia, right?)

[Initech]

5. I figured that a conviction was the longest of long shots.

But I'll be perfectly OK with making sure that he can never hold any office of any kind ever again. And he can take his family with him!

[Rorey]

6. Civil suits

I hope there are civil suits against trump from those who are charged with the criminal acts that he instigated. and also from the family of the slain Capitol Police officer.

[lettucebe]

7. Seems to me if they do not ban him, he will forever wreck any repug chances

You'd think for that reason alone they'd back this. Not to mention, he may say today he won't start his own party, but just wait. Since exactly when can his word be trusted?

[11 Bravo]

8. Sorry, no. But a bunch of Republicans will be forced to go on the record ...

and claim that everything that criminal pig-fucker did was just fine and dandy.

And they will have to live with that.

[Doreen]

9. The only thing I want is for him to never be allowed to run for any office again.

[FreepFryer]

10. You cant get the disqualification without the conviction. (Nt)

[scrabblequeen40]

11. Airing out all the dirty laundry is worse for GOP brand

It will be so bad, they will go down with Trump if they don't convict.

In the famous words of Amanda Gorman, "... there will always be light... if only we are brave enough to see it, if only we are brave enough to be it."

Also, fuck trump,.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

12. Every republican

Is a liar traitor fascist bully at heart. Never ever trust or believe anything out of thier mouths. They are criminal and narcissistic.

Their party is evil and seditious.

Wtf did you think smaller government meant?

A government small enough to be destroyed by an insurection. A government that cannot defend itself from the 1/3rd of the true believer quanon racists..

They want small government because they are anti democratic authoritarian pieces of shit every single republican there are no good republicans,none.

[In It to Win It]

13. I have a little faith that Republicans will have moved on from Trump by 2024

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Just having all his crimes laid out in public,

will be a good thing.

It will be something that we can hang around the necks of Republicans in upcoming elections. They're the party of sedition and insurrection, and beating police with the American flag.

[Baltimike]

24. I stand corrected...rats! He has to be convicted...am going to edit the OP. nt

[misanthrope]

25. One exception

I wouldn't classify ALL for-profit press as conservative unless you consider Mother Jones, The Nation and The Daily Beast to be conservative. A great number of them are. When it comes to traditional daily newspapers, what you find is that the lower level reporters and journalists are typically much more liberal than their superiors. The higher up the chain you go, the more conservative they usually become.