If you’ve heard it once from pundits on MSNBC and in online/print media you’ve heard it 100 times. This is the main argument against the Democrats focusing too much on impeaching Trump. It is that since the Senate, baring a complete Trump psychiatric meltdown even his supporters can’t ignore, would never convict him, and significantly that impeachment inquiries or a full impeachment would backfire and only serve to fire up his base.
I am weary of pundits pontificating as if they knew with absolute certainly what the effects of impeachment inquiries or impeachment itself would be. In fact, nobody knows. It is all speculation and there is so much disagreement sometimes it seems to me that the incessant debate on MSNBC (the only station I watch) is just a way to fill air time.
My own view is decidedly unpundity. I am not an expert in the politics of this. I only claim expertise in one area related to Trump. This is his dangerous psychopathology. I feel justified in claiming at least minor pundithood on this because I was one of the first psychotherapist member's of John D. Gartner's Duty to Warn movement (read his latest article from USA Today: President Donald Trump's poor mental health is grounds for impeachment), and I have written many diaries on this.
So my “not a pundit” opinion about this subject is that bottom line for what counts for Trump is that his base goes out and votes for him on Election Day. If you think they need anything to fire them up to to drag their knuckles to the ballot box on Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 you don’t watch Fox News.
All impeachment will do is amp up the already unhinged rhetoric form Fox and Friends, Hannity, Ingraham, Watters, Pirro, and the reprehensible Tucker Carlson, as well as guests like the demented Rudy Giuliani.
They already preach to the choir and there’s a point where their rants could do what watching MSNBC hour after hour does to me. I watch for awhile and if there’s nothing compelling I then find a video diversion. At present I am on season six (of nine) of Seinfeld on Hulu. If you have Hulu and were a fan, I recommend it for stress relief.