Thread by @JewhadiTM

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Half a dozen House committees with Democrats in charge are investigating Trump, his administration, family, appointees, political affairs, businesses, lifestyle, and various antics.

This is abnormal. There’s never been an offensive so vast against a president by his rival party. It took only two committees — one in the Senate, one in the House — to look into the Watergate scandal and drive Nixon out of the White House in 1974.

But Trump is more popular today than Nixon was, and Democrats are taking no chances he might escape their grasp.

The struggle with Trump defines Democrats.

A liberal agenda is an afterthought. Democrats couldn’t pass one anyway, given Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s control of the Senate and a veto pen in Trump’s hand. Their only serious goal is to remove Trump from office or make him unelectable in 2020.

It’s important to understand the Trump effect on both parties. He has captured the political part of the American mind. What this means is he’s constantly at the center of what Republicans and Democrats discuss, debate, or think about. He’s gotten in their brains.

A whole tribe of political columnists have been affected. They can’t write about anyone besides Trump. His presence caused George Will, the great conservative writer, to quit the Republican Party. Trump’s rise prompted Max Boot, the military affairs expert, to become a liberal.

The obsession with Trump eclipses the Democratic presidential campaign and the party squabble over how far it should lurch to the left. Those things are now lonely islands floating somewhere far from the political center.

They’re unattached to Washington, where the fate of Donald Trump is being determined. Their media coverage has already taken a hit. Trump is a mightier attraction than the entire field of candidates for the Democratic nomination.

Dems are conducting a fishing expedition. Schiff, the chairman of the House Intel Committee, is famous for quoting tales from the fraudulent Steele dossier as if he believed them. Subpoena power is bound to make Schiff and other Dems more effective. Fishing expeditions often work

That a socialist has emerged as the nation’s most visible Democrat is quite abnormal. So was Trump’s dramatic vow, in his State of the Union address, to keep socialism from succeeding in America. What’s happening is not business as usual.