This may be unpopular, but it's based on sound strategy:

Senate Dems / House Dems should NOT focus on removing Trump, because the GOP will block them, and it distracts from the real fight.

No, not the election. The GOP could care LESS about that.

It's the 2 mos AFTERWARDS.
There is NOTHING legally preventing both Thomas AND Alito from resigning on November 4th, and if North Carolina is any indicator when the GOP lost, that kind of shenanigans is EXACTLY what we'll see.
And we saw yesterday not just who will replace RBG if we lose, but also who will replace Alito and Thomas if we win.

Cotton, Cruz, Hawley. It's not a coincidence they floated 3 names.
This is what Pelosi, Schumer, and the Democratic party needs to focus on, because that will be 4 HARD RIGHT anti-woman justices under the age of 60 on our SCOTUS in ONE term.

And that's IF Brennan, RBG, and Roberts are around by January 3rd.
Impeaching Trump = no democrat candidates allowed to leave DC to campaign, and at best for us, Trump is cleared by the GOP, and faces no penalty.

Worst for us? The GOP throws him to the wolves, and runs Pence who brings evangelical cash to the party currently sitting this out.
If Pence is POTUS, we still likely beat him in 2020, but we don't flip the Senate due to the influx of $$, and that's just as crucial, if not more.

Without the Senate, nothing gets done. No appointments. No bills pass, and no progress made. Everything gets filibustered.
We not having the Senate means that we could see a REFUSAL to appoint Biden's replacement for RBG, Brennan, and any cabinet members. They could effectively prevent the government from working, just as they did in NC.
Now why do I say that the GOP "cares less about the election"?

It's based in fact, couched off the knowledge that in America, a minority can rule the majority. In our form of government, it takes 60 votes to pass any bill increasing government, and only 50 votes to decrease it
And the GOP lame duck senate will be doing everything that they can to cement power once they lose in November. Count on "emergency sessions" in the dead of night, trying to sneak through procedural changes, votes, and hearings.

That's what we need to focus on.
Look, I know this is hard to hear. Hell, it's hard to write.

But if I put aside my anger, my shame, and my grief for a moment; and look at the situation tactically like I was trained to - I know that this is the right question to pose.

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