This author can take no credit for the above snappy headline: It’s verbatim from Politico on February 13, in the wake of the Senate’s impeachment trial.
As Politico explained, Democrats are torn between the Biden administration’s desire for Congress to get moving on its agenda and the Democratic base’s “loathing” of the former president. And so far, at least, the base loathers are getting what they want: The Democrats just can’t quit hating on Donald Trump.
Indeed, it’s that loathing that could yet consume Democrats in 2021—and perhaps beyond. As the article detailed, Democrats are working on a “road map to deal with Trump after the trial,” which might include “an effort to obtain Trump’s financial records,” a revocation of “his post-presidential privileges,” and the enacting of legislation “strengthening Congress’s powers to ensure that future presidents are forced to abide by stricter rules for responding to subpoenas, divesting from businesses and not hiring family members.”
We can note that these steps are fraught for Democrats, as any new rules would, of course, apply to them as well; and so one wonders, for example, how Hunter Biden would react to laws about full disclosure or a crackdown on nepotism.
Still, if the Trump-loathing Democratic base—including both high-dollar donors in Manhattan and low-dollar donors with an ActBlue account—wants Democratic pols to keep going after Trump, they probably will.
We might recall that a mirroring situation happened back in 1998, as the Republican base demanded the impeachment of Bill Clinton; cooler Republican heads could see that impeachment wasn’t going to work, although the GOP faithful—notably egged on by a new star on a new news channel, Sean Hannity—demanded it. And so impeachment went forward, despite national polls showing the country 2:1 opposed.
read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/02/15/pinkerton-democrats-wrestle-with-how-to-quit-an-acquitted-trump/
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