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1. Point: "Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it."
2. Counterpoint: “Ethically unfit. Intellectually unfit. Curiosity-wise unfit. No, I don’t think he’s fit to be president of the United States."
3. I think Speaker Pelosi is right on the merits of this, and not Speaker Pelosi. A short thread to explain why:
4. The speaker claims the president is “unfit," that he is "disregarding the Constitution of the United States,” mounting an "unconstitutional assault” on Congress. These are not claims to be casually lodged, or deployed for rhetorical effect.
5. The Constitution, in fact, establishes a process for adjudicating these sorts of claims. (It’s not to give a Q and A to a Sunday magazine.) If you’re afraid of things that will “divide the country”? Don’t lob these charges without the willingness to see them through.
6. The speaker says she’s waiting for "something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan.” Perhaps it will emerge. In the past, though, it has been the process of impeachment itself—the inquiry, the hearings, the public airing of the evidence—that has helped produce it.
7. Impeachment is a process, not an outcome. And the House ought to take its constitutional responsibilities as seriously as the charges its leaders are willing to publicly air against the president suggest it should: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
