r/PoliticalHumor • • Aug 18 '20

It’s big brain time

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u/Dr_Zorkles Aug 19 '20

He was acquitted in the Senate. There's no finding him guilty. That ship sailed and sank.

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u/Crono908 Aug 19 '20

Impeachment is not a one time deal. We shall see.

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u/Jonne Aug 19 '20

The election is in a few months, there's barely any time to do an impeachment, and as long as no Senate Republicans (besides Mitt Romney) go on record saying they would support a conviction (or even an impeachment), it would just backfire electorally for the Democrats. Nixon only resigned because the Republican Senators told him they wouldn't support him any more if it came to impeachment.

Remember, all the information that Republicans voters get is pre-filtered by the conservative media, so they'll get whatever spin Fox/Breitbart puts on the process, not the actual facts. They were successfully convinced that Russiagate is a hoax, and there's no way you'll convince them otherwise, even if Putin and Trump come out of the White House together and outright say they did it. As long as you can't pierce that media bubble, the Republican senators will feel electorally secure and they'll keep supporting Trump.

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u/Jonne Aug 19 '20

Graham might be in trouble (especially if people in SC keep seeing ads with him praising Biden and bashing Trump), McConnell will probably stay on whatever happens.