Speaking of motivated reasoning: It's certainly possible that Dems are making a political mistake by moving forward with an impeachment inquiry. But most of the supposed anti-Trump people I see saying this are conservatives, which makes it look like concern trolling 1/
I mean, these guys have access to the same polling as the rest of us — and the polling is steadily getting more encouraging for impeachment, although it ain't over until the fat golfer sings 2/
So it has to be motivated reasoning. What I don't quite get is the motivation. These are generally people who say they consider Trump corrupt and a threat to democracy. So what bothers them about taking this on? 3/
I have a guess, but it's no more than that — which is that an impeachment will, in effect, put the whole GOP on trial, forcing Rs in the Senate to explicitly condone Trumpist treason. This will arguably discredit the whole modern conservative movement 4/
Rather than admit, even to themselves, that they fear this outcome, some — not all! — never Trumpers are inventing reasons impeachment would be a mistake.
Just a hypothesis. Maybe there's another explanation 5/
Just a hypothesis. Maybe there's another explanation 5/
