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Not a Single Republican Voted for Impeachment
Why this should spook Democrats facing Election Day 2020.
Anyone who thinks 196 well-educated, professional people duly elected to congress care more about Donald Trump than being reelected is missing something significant about human nature.
Try and organize that many Protestants, cat burglars, or steel workers- or any other group held together by no more that a single demographic descriptor and a few shared values- to agree 100% on anything.
What does this unified Republican vote tell us about the upcoming 2020 election?
If you are firmly in the very-progressive left wing branch of the Democratic Party, you might believe that 196 Congressional Republicans are simply terrible human beings; too corrupt, or blind, or cowed by Donald Trump to vote the correct way on impeachment.
Policy disagreements aside, even if some Congressional Republicans may indeed be as bad as liberals think they are, this can’t possibly be true of everyone. Republicans routinely disagree about a variety of political and social issues, sometimes bitterly. Contrary to popular belief, there are all sorts of Republicans. Rich Republicans, poor Republicans. There are African-American Republicans and Latino-American Republicans; there are gay Republicans and strait ones. Women and men.