Failing to impeach Donald Trump would have invited future presidential candidates to solicit foreign help in elections
CONGRESS CALLED what it did on December 18th “debating” a resolution to impeach Donald Trump. But there was more bluster than argument. No opinion was unaired, and no minds were changed. The vote that came shortly after 8pm was utterly predictable. Every Democrat save two—Jeff Van Drew, a freshman from New Jersey soon to switch parties; and Collin Peterson, who represents a conservative, rural district in western Minnesota—voted in favour of both articles of impeachment.
So Democrats faced an unenviable choice, though the egregiousness of Mr Trump’s actions made it somewhat easier. As one representative, Terri Sewell, put it, “No one comes to Congress to impeach a president. However, the President has given this Congress no choice.
Yet ahead of next year’s presidential poll, Mr Trump remains wildly popular among Republicans. Most incumbent presidents get re-elected, especially when the economy is doing well. As Democrats in the House were voting to impeach him, thousands of his supporters waited for hours in frigid weather for him to speak at his rally in Michigan—a state he won, the first Republican presidential candidate to do so since 1988.
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