Democratic leaders know — and worry about — the power of Trump’s politics of anxiety. It’s why leading liberals like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren have been very wary of talking much at all about impeachment in the run-up to the 2018 election.
The Point: The world won’t aim if Democrat take over the House. Or even if that Democratic House votes to impeach Trump.( The Senate, where the impeachment example would be heard, is still more likely than not is in accordance with Republican hands in 2019.) It would, of course, be a major political upheaval that would likely worsen our already terrible polarization. But we’d all soldier on. Trump — and Giuliani — know that, it’s just not in their political interest to say so.
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