If Democrats impeach Trump, a GOP House would probably impeach the next Democratic president
by Philip Klein
| September 28, 2019 12:03 PM
House Democrats are poised to impeach President Trump once they've spent more time following the leads in the whistleblower complaint. But should they take that step in a heavily partisan process in which most Republican voters believe Trump was unjustly targeted, it's quite likely that the next time there's a Democratic president and a Republican House, we'll have another impeachment.
Trump himself hinted at this on Saturday when he tweeted about a hypothetical scenario imagining if Republicans acted toward Barack Obama as Democrats are acting toward him. "Oh well, maybe next time!" he concluded.
To be clear, I'm not saying that the decision to impeach should be determined by the prospect of potential retribution by a future Republican Congress. But I'm acknowledging the reality of the potential long-term fallout of impeaching Trump.
Right now, 85% of Republicans oppose impeaching the president. Many prominent voices led by Trump are pushing the idea that the Ukraine scandal is a hoax in which the intelligence community, the Democrats, and the media are attempting to take a president down because they hate him.
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