{"id":12116,"date":"2020-01-07T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12116"},"modified":"2020-01-07T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:07:37","slug":"impeachment-fallouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/impeachment-fallouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Fallouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Impeachment is shaping up as unpredictably explosive, but not in the way imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are lots of things that we do know about the present impeachment of Donald Trump \u2014 and we know that there are even more areas that remain unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quietly, the approval ratings of Trump have been rising to pre-impeachment levels and are nearing a RealClearPolitics<\/em> average of 45. Support for impeaching Trump and\/or removing him is not increasing as the House Democrats expected. It is essentially static, or slowly eroding, depending on how polls phrase such questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, an exhausted public did not see \u201cUkrainian\u201d impeachment as a one-off national crisis akin to the Nixon inquiry and the Clinton impeachment and trial that merited national attention. The impeachment vote instead is being confirmed in the public mind as part of a now boring three-year impeachment psychodrama (from impeachment 1.0, the Logan Act, the emoluments clause, the 25th Amendment, and Michael Avenatti\/Stormy Daniels comedies to Robert Mueller\u2019s \u201cdream team\u201d and \u201call-stars\u201d). The progressive logic of the current jump-the-shark monotony is to become even more monotonous, the way that a driller leans ever harder on his dull and chipping bit as his bore becomes static.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Impeachment is shaping up as unpredictably explosive, but not in the way imagined. There are lots of things that we do know about the present impeachment of Donald Trump \u2014 and we know that there are even more areas that remain unknown. Quietly, the approval ratings of Trump have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-39q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12074,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/20-impeachment-what-ifs\/","url_meta":{"origin":12116,"position":0},"title":"20 Impeachment What-Ifs","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Democrats might have had a more persuasive case for impeachment if only\u2026 1) Donald Trump had cut off all military assistance to Ukraine. 2) Donald Trump got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by leveraging U.S. aid. 3) Barack Obama earlier had not vetoed lethal\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12055,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-impeachment-is-illegitimate\/","url_meta":{"origin":12116,"position":1},"title":"Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment \u201cinquiry\u201d is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt. 1) Impeachment 24\/7.\u00a0The impeachment \u201cinquiry,\u201d supposedly prompted by the president\u2019s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of \u201ccoups\u201d that sought\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12066,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-impeachment-clock\/","url_meta":{"origin":12116,"position":2},"title":"The Impeachment Clock","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Adam Schiff\u2019s impeachment inquiry is incoherent. 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