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All the \u201cbut why aren\u2019t the Democrats impeaching Trump?!?\u201d articles seem to come down to \u201cthey over-learned the lesson of 1998, where sympathy for the impeached helped his party make gains in Congress\u201d, but ignore the lesson of 2006, where they offered the public no pressure-release from Dubya but \u201celect more Democrats\u201d and in exchange the public did, enough to retake Congress

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And like, Pelosi is “ignoring the chief political lesson of the Nixon impeachment”?

Like, you realize the long-term take of the American, and Democratic establishments is that the Nixon thing was a failure, that at the party and national level it wasn’t a reclaiming but a dissipation of power, along with the Watergate Babies and the new primary system it was just handing the keys over to the rabble, degrading their ability to act in any coherent way

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