During Trump's first impeachment, the GOP pushed the misplaced 'let voters decide' argument. Four years later, the talking point is back — and it's worse.
that everyone would benefit if Trump’s critics “try to stop him on the campaign trail and at the ballot box, and let the American people make these choices.”presented a similar argument“Look, I think that needs to be left to the American people. ... I’ve said many times, Jon, I would have preferred that these matters be left to the judgment of the American people.”
To be sure, Pence didn’t argue that the former president should be let off the hook for his alleged crimes altogether — in the same interview, he said Trump deserves “his day in court” — but the Republican Hoosier nevertheless expressed a general preference. If it were up to Pence, Trump’s fate would be in the hands of voters, not jurors.recent coverage
, this should be relatively straightforward. There are a handful of ways to hold Trump accountable for wrongdoing. He can be charged by prosecutors who’ve assembled evidence by way of a grand jury, but Republicans are against that. He can be punished by the Congress — impeachment, conviction, and being barred from office — but Republicans are against that, too.
Or Trump can be defeated by the electorate — which certainly has some appeal, though there’s one glaring problem:
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