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Dead Man's Hand: The Impeachment Gambit

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Did I mention Mike Pence?

Nathan Robinson has it exactly right: "It's time to forget the Mueller-fuelled impeachment fantasies." It's not going to happen, and there is no reason for leftists to try and make it happen.

The real progressive mission is to wage a determined political fight against the structures--including all the political and ideological supports--of racism, capitalism, and imperialism, of which Trump is only a particularly vulgar representative. But the Democrats are not going to do that, either. Which is why, though they will not impeach Trump, they will continue to dangle the shiny possibility before their enraged and transfixed constituents--so that they will not turn their attention away from Trump to the structural problems.

Impeachment? It's a dead-man's hand. Know when to walk away.

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