The uphill challenge that Schiff, Democrats, and the mainstream media have - going forward with impeachment (I am sure they still will proceed and vote it forward in House to the Senate) is....
….from hours after DJT was sworn in forward, the result (punishment) for many in The Resistance was a foregone conclusion: "Orange Man Bad, unfit for office, must be removed by
any means possible - aka impeachment."
From that point forward everything from Mueller to emoluments to 25th amendment to Ukraine (with terms for the crime changing frequently based on focus group polling from "quid pro quo" now to "bribery" etc)...
has been all about trying to find a crime to fit the premeditated, foregone conclusion punishment (removal from office).
I believe a lot of people in society (voters)
now see it through this lens, including voters in states of a lot of the Republican senators. They see it as Schiff et al throwing everything they can at the wall and hoping eventually something will stick. A vast majority of voters / viewers are totally checked out of the impeachment process now, and are more concerned with why nothing else is getting done in congress.
The interest in impeachment and support for impeachment is steadily declining including through the hearings- especially among independents.
Possibly the strongest pro-impeachment witness (Sondland) spoke today. So maybe that will change. But again I think most people are so checked out, it will be hard to move the needle. I can't see something new coming out that will influence enough R senators to vote for removal. If it existed, it seems that high "trump"
card would've been played by now.
I think with the way Dems have gone about impeachment - purely political - trying to find whatever crime will stick to reach the level of premeditated punishment of impeachment / removal.... you could have found or built up and sold a "high crime and misdemeanor" to remove practically any past president - from DJT to Obama, Clinton, the Bushes, Reagan (Iran Contra), even Carter probably.
A precedent is being set here to make the impeachment process 100% political - not a constitutional, law enforcement process.
...plus - we are under a year from the election. For a lot of people undecided, or wanting to remove DJT from office, it likely just seems like an easier, better solution to just vote him out next November. But the Dems can't leave the fate of the country to the voters - what if somehow the voters chose to keep him in office? That is a risk the country (voters) just cannot take.
