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I think optimism is toxic when it comes to the outcome of an impeachment process. It should be pushed forward, but any strategy that doesn't assume the GOP won't remove Trump is a liability. How can people still think the GOP cares about the rules, decency or democracy?
No strategy should ever hinge on the GOP giving a fuck about the rules. This is Mitch McConnell's Senate. The GOP has been relentless. The idea that 20 of them will flip is absurd. They will put on a show, talk it over and say he fucked up but that it doesn't warrant removal.
Telling people to expect anything else is harmful to us all bc we need to be prepared for what things will look like when Trump hits another level of impunity. It will be up to us to remove him, not the god damn Republican Senate. And that means building toward that fight now.
When it comes to getting rid of Trump, our targets are not our target audience. We should make the GOP miserable, but the end game is mobilizing the public to remove Trump. We need a movement that can push back against an authoritarian who may resist stepping down.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." - Assata Shakur
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