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> There was at least a shade of un-democracy in those impeachments. The Democrats weren't implementing the will of the people there, it is pretty clear they wer
by tablespoon 5y ago
> There was at least a shade of un-democracy in those impeachments. The Democrats weren't implementing the will of the people there, it is pretty clear they were trying to implement the will of Democratic people and override the results that the system had come up with.
That's a bad read of the situation. While the impeachments did have a partisan aspect, they were also totally warranted from a non-partisan perspective, given Trump's actual behavior.
Honestly, the more shamelessly partisan thing was how Republicans didn't go along with the impeachment, but rather gave Trump a full throated defense, just because he had an R next to his name (at the time).
- roenxi 5y agoWell, the first impeachment it turned out with hindsight that there were shady business dealings in Ukraine linked to the Bidens, so that behaviour is pretty easy to defend. The US already had an active investigation underway. It made a lot of sense to ask the Ukranians to cooperate.