The Democrats have one last chance to halt the erosion of US democracy – and it’s less than 100 days away | Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig November’s midterm elections, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
  • raze2012@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    He wasn’t impeached over tariffs in 2018.

    well, my info was horribly wrong. I thought I might have confused one of the failed attempts at impeachment from the first term, but it wasn’t that either.

    70s from within your own party, especially Republicans, is pretty freaking bad.

    Bad for these hyerpartisans times, yes. But this wasn’t the norm, even as far back as 15 years ago.

    But it’s part of why GOP congress is still spineless. A lot of their constituents still think Trump is doing a “good job”. Or at least that’s what they say out loud.