Democrats should pay a price for their bogus coup attempt

Christian Whiton:

How the Democrats Will Pay for Impeaching Donald Trump

We can already conclude with certainty that Democrats have lost the impeachment fight against President Trump. The only question is how much of a political disaster this will be for the Democrats, and who will pay for the failure.

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Democrats are clearly nervous. In his opening dissertation, Schiff attempted to short circuit two conclusions that the public may draw from the proceedings: that the Biden family is corrupt and that Ukraine illegally interfered in the 2016 election. Schiff said both claims are “debunked” and part of an effort to distract from Trump’s alleged transgressions. In fact, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, had no-show sinecures at a corrupt Ukrainian energy company and a private equity fund in China, both of which, many voters will conclude, sought and received favorable treatment from the U.S. government.

Then-Vice President Biden bragged that he got aid to Ukraine halted until a prosecutor investigating the Ukrainian company was fired, and he has been inexplicably soft on China. Just last year, Biden said of China, “I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not, they’re not competition for us.”

As for Ukraine, even though the mainstream media screeches that claim Kiev interfered in the 2016 election are ludicrous, none of the allegations first reported by Kenneth Vogel and David Stern have been faulted: Ukrainian officials colluded with Democratic operatives to smear Trump campaign staffers and aid Hillary Clinton. If Russia has rightly been made to pay for its unacceptable if picayune and ineffective intervention in the 2016 election, why not Ukraine?
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What can we predict of the fate of congressmen like Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who flipped a suburban Denver seat from Republican to Democratic hands in 2018? Before his election, he observed, “People in the community ask me about health care, immigration, affordable housing and jobs.” What exactly has his party done with the House to help average Americans with any of those issues? All he has to show is enraged resistance to Trump—Crow is one of the House impeachment managers—and he has failed at that.

The question is whether voters care about these down-ballot races. Even a mere decrease in progressive enthusiasm could doom Democrats like Crow.
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The Democrats deserve to lose in 2020.  Their win in 2018 was based largely on their pushing of the Russian collusion hoax and bogus allegations of corruption.  Both had since been to use one of their favorite words of late "debunked."