Leave it to the voters

I keep hearing that the Democrats are planning an attempt to impeach Donald Trump if they win control of the House in November, but I don’t think that action will be in their best interest unless they can provide incontrovertible evidence of malfeasance on his part. I have yet to see such evidence. Conviction by the Senate is highly unlikely and the attempt to impeach would only serve to fire up Trump’s base for the 2020 elections. It might also win sympathy for him from those who might see impeachment as an attempt to subvert the will of the voters in 2016 even if he didn’t win the popular vote. A problem for the Democrats, however, is that a failure to impeach will probably incur the wrath of many voters who will go to the polls in November fully expecting that the election will result in impeachment.

If Trump were to be impeached and removed from office, Mike Pence will have an almost spotless record on which to run and win election as president in 2020, as it is customary to vote for an incumbent president in good economic times.

Democrats should consider a strategy that has worked rather well for Republicans (and Fox News): use of insinuation and innuendo to make it appear that certain people are escaping justice that is due them.

It worked very well in the Benghazi, email server, and Clinton Foundation “scandals.” It was indeed much easier to “convict” Hillary in the “court” of public opinion than it would have been in an actual court. There is also more political benefit in voter anger that someone has escaped justice than in the satisfaction that might be achieved in that person’s conviction.

The resolution of the Trump “case” should be left to the voters in 2020. ED CHESS Little Rock