Here’s how you know Donald Trump’s impeachment is coming
The impeachment process against Donald Trump will begin sooner rather than later. How do we know? It’s just the increasing number of House Democrats, many of them on the House Judiciary Committee where impeachment starts, openly calling for it to start. It’s not just the rising pro-impeachment poll numbers. There’s a far more telltale sign.
There’s a segment of pundits on TV, best referred to as the “doomsday pundits,” who try to scare liberal viewers into staying tuned in by convincing them that – among other things – the Democrats can’t win no matter what they do. Up to now, most of the doomsday pundits have been pushing a narrative along the lines of “Trump is going to win reelection because House Democrats aren’t going to impeach him.” But over the past day or two, that narrative has begun to shift, to “Trump is going to win reelection because House Democrats are going to impeach him.”
Of course the premise itself is gibberish. Donald Trump’s poll numbers aren’t within a million miles of being high enough for him to get reelected, and haven’t been at any point during his time in office. Yet we’re supposed to believe that Trump’s poll numbers are somehow going to magically spike in the coming months if they impeach him, and if they don’t impeach him? But that’s the nature of doomsday punditry; it doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to scare people into sticking around through the next commercial break.
The point here isn’t to beat up on the worst of the pundits. The point is their shift from one doomsday prognostication to the other. They’ve now concluded that impeachment is coming. Now they’re going to try to convince you that the Democrats are doomed because they’re moving forward with impeachment.
