What Nancy Pelosi said about Trump in her announcement also applies to Congress as a whole: “Nobody is above the law”. On the other hand, from a political point of view, the legal drama will most likely harm Democrats.
This is not just because there is very little chance that the Republican-controlled Senate will ultimately vote to depose the president by a wide enough margin; the whole thing may well backfire as it did for the Republicans after their failed attempt to depose Bill Clinton in 1998.
Despite its procedural flaws and the deep disagreements it has laid bare, the Democratic primary process has so far demonstrated an ideological vitality and combativeness that hadn’t been seen for decades, either within the US Democratic Party or, frankly, any other left-leaning political force in consolidated Western democracies.
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