Nah it’s much more likely that they would abolish the impeachment mechanism long before it became too embarrassing.

Impeachment shouldn’t be taboo because it’s the only (intended) way to hold officials accountable. It’s been stigmatized by career politicians because it’s not in either party’s interest to get kicked out or put a target on their back.

Looking at the past century we should have had a huge chunk of representatives impeached for their parts in the USA’s shitty policies. Not all should have convicted but there was never any scrutiny beyond the newspapers.

Since you won’t accept the obvious answers, how about this: grassroots efforts that you or I push will get zero international public attention or are easily suppressed at worst. Any impeachment will automatically make the news and can’t be suppressed because the federal government is the USA’s international arm.

This isn’t just an America problem and it’s good for the world to see a verifiable measure of resistance. Unconfimable local tweets and phone videos, shockingly, don’t do much when the opposition can invent and cherry pick their own narratives.

Why the original comment then? What are you accomplishing with that?

I could never tell you if it doesn’t happen. If the 5th impeachment brings consequences then does it matter that the first 4 were powder puff? Is two the magic number fascists have to beat to stop thinking about impeachment forever? If you really believe it’s total theater without even an accidental chance of a positive outcome then why bother commenting on it? Go spend your efforts elsewhere.

Forcing a rep to publicly voice opposition is only a risk for that rep. They’re the one standing on the stage against the administration. Congress has to take time out of their busy schedule of banning abortion and legalizing slavery to debate it. Make them keep doing it until something breaks. It costs me literally nothing and it damages the legitimacy of this shit show government either way.

They already made it a witch hunt the first two times, why not one more? Ignoring his crimes can’t lessen the damage already done, with enough repetition maybe they’ll accidentally catch up with him at some point. The more you have to leverage controlled opposition the less controlled it gets.

The two party handbook is falling apart because they’re stretching it to ludicrous extremes, look at how shit everyone is polling. American voters and global “Allies” should be cheering for any faint pulse on the USA’s desiccated corpse.

Who gives a shit about the dems? If they continue to impeach and fail on following through that’s just more evidence that they’re unfit to hold any office. If the Rs cling tighter to the sinking ship, they’re just digging a deeper grave. Have them all list out the crimes and waffle around on the public stage.

There’s a lot the average person/voter should be doing but if you’re not demanding an impeachment whenever possible and keeping receipts on the collaborators you’re not doing the bare minimum. That’s true for literally any stance that opposes fascism. Even if you’re a dumbass accelerationist who just wants fascism to march forward and implode, you still should want a public display of systemic corruption.

What do you lose by impeachment? Any flicker of resistance is better than just lying down and telling the world we consent.