Opinion: Democrats are complicit if they don’t impeach Trump
By Julian E. Zelizer May 10 at 5:55 PM Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.
Given the abuses of power by Trump, why are Democrats so worried about starting a process to see whether articles of impeachment are warranted? While it is impossible to game out everything that might unfold, it is easy to see what allowing the president’s continuing abuse of power is doing to our long-cherished norms and precedents. We have in fact seen this every day since January 2017. What keeps becoming clearer is how each act of abusive power begets another. Trump and his team keep getting bolder in what they are willing to do to hold and consolidate power, such as Rudolph W.
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