Olde Europe
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To clarify..no difference in the actions and behavior of the partisans of both sides. Fanatics of any stripe are troubling--to me, anyway. The demonization of the opposition is harmful..no matter the side.
No, I don't wish impeachment..for no other reason that it's kabuki theater...an orgy of partisan masturbation fed by the media frenzy. I know Trump is corrupt...but if he is the President that America wanted...then let him show his ass...and then let us vote him out...or not. I don't care about the popular vote...I don't care about the 'resistance' and I don't care for the way that the left is playing the people..in their bid to regain power. I think that this impeachment is just one long campaign infomercial. "Woke" indeed! Some of us..were never sleeping to begin with...and yes, I do think that the leaders of both teams are interchangeable...and playing from the same playbook...
Anecdotally, I know many Republicans that are dismayed with Trump..they just don't get the media time--i also know a few Democrats are are dismayed at what they see as the lack of choice, in their candidate's positions. But the poor choices of both parties are shoved down our throats--and impeachment won't change any of that. Our institutions are still sound...and life is still good..for me, anyway..regardless of who is POTUS.
You wish to tar the entire Republican party with the same brush..I find that lack of nuance troubling. I think you take it a bit personally..Trump's reign of idiocy..while I see it as as transitory..and, while it has caused damage..it has also pointed out a lot of America that has been covert for a long time..including the racism of some.
To sum up, Trump is but a symptom...the divides of rural vs urban...20th century vs 21st...poor vs rich---are all what is driving the Trump train. Address that!
Oh..a historical note...there have been arguably worse Presidents than Trump..several, in fact. Harding, Coolidge and Grant--to name a few.
..and this..have you wondered why the impeachment focus is NOT on the Emoluments issues? Despite there being a much clearer case?
Congress does not want to touch that with a ten foot pole..too many rice bowls in play! LOL!
Let's keep this short.
There is a long list of very influential radicals, from Trump on down, on the GOP side, with nothing even remotely comparable on the side of the Democrats. Impeachment is there in the Constitution because the Founders thought it necessary. Your advocacy that an electoral catastrophe should remain, even while not even "the President that America wanted", disrespects the Constitution. I did not tar the entire Republican party with the same brush. Maybe a re-reading of my posting would help. Private grumblings while they are publicly going along to get along aren't worth a bucket of spit.
Trump may be a symptom. That is why your list of worse presidents doesn't cut it. Only in conjunction with a GOP too corrupt or too cowardly to stand up to the disease, bereft of principle or lacking in spine, does that become a threat. Finally, why do you think the House tries to get their hands on Trump's tax returns? Yeah, they are going after him for, wait for it, violating the Emoluments Clause. So much for the "ten foot pole".
Bribery? Right there, in the Constitution? Not a word from you on that, not touched, not even with a "ten foot pole".