Centrist Democrats and their allies in the news media who still insist on dispensing conventional wisdom about the enduring strength of America’s political institutions, and about the inherent decency of Trump’s voters, are incapable of accepting a basic fact: Donald Trump is loved by his supporters — and has the highest level of base support among any president in the history of modern polling — largely because of his disregard and disdain for democracy, the rule of law and basic human decency. Impeachment will not change that fact. In the worst-case scenario, impeachment may make Trump more popular not less. This will happen because of Trump's shared "victim" narrative with his supporters — and because Trump's criminality gives his supporters a deviant thrill.
For Trumpers and other conservatives, impeachment by the Democrats embodies the “political correctness” they pathologically rail against and obsess about.
-Chauncey Devega
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