Then there’s the matter of what a post-Trump White House would look like: one still held by a Republican, and a far more predictable one at that. In contrast, when Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton, plenty of people in his own party worried about an Al Gore presidency for reasons ranging from his temperament to his green agenda. Similarly, when Democrats flirted with impeaching President George W.
Vice President Mike Pence is different. Yes, Pence is a staunch social conservative. He’s also an ineffectual one, whoon the most high-profile religious freedom legislation of his Indiana governorship after a backlash for its effect on the LGBT community. He likely would have lost his seat had he not joined Trump on the national ticket.
Trump’s impeachment trial also suffers from the fact that the central topic is foreign policy rather than, say, sexual indiscretions and lying about them under oath. Most Americans don't care much about foreign policy; it managed to eke out ain a list of priorities in a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, and that’s only if you consider “terrorism” a synonym. The idea that the president is being impeached because of a temporary delay of U.S.
Furthermore, to the extent that Americans are following the details of these foreign dealings and think Trump did something improper here, there’s little to suggest they see it as farWashington corruption. The charge is that he tried to game the system to get a foreign government to look into … another American politician’s alleged corrupt gaming of the system in a foreign country.
Perhaps if the living memory many of us carry of the last impeachment were more traumatic, that, too, could shake the country. But it’s not. Those of us who recall Clinton’s impeachment know that we got through that ordeal with minimal damage to the state of the union. Republicans in the House impeached the president. The Senate held a short trial and let him off, and that was that.
THINK Nobody made you care about corruption in the WH? You should want to care without help. Wtf?
THINK Nice job NBC. Maybe if you DID your job, people would understand why they should care. See how that works?
THINK No! Lots of people care, just can sense a loaded docket assembled by a political indictment. Had they sincerely evaluated both Trump’s acts w/Ukraine and Interagency misdeeds in the 2016 election, interest would be intense. Otherwise, it’s your typical coverup. Bernie will change
THINK I watched until Trumps Lawers took over. They made my stomach turn. I listened to their lies and propaganda for a full day it was obvious trumps party of sheep and thugs were following trump and jumping off the cliff!
THINK Wrong. We’re not watching because we know the end result. The Repubs have been paid off by Trump & Russia—THEY don’t care. We see the whole thing is nothing but a sham & we’re going to vote them all out—plus there are those out in the streets protesting. We don’t need to watch
THINK Disgusting dem hoax
THINK Because its unjustified !!!
THINK There is no real trial. Only Corruption.
THINK Most don’t have the stamina or interest to wade through the barrage of Republican misdirection and disinformation, nor the detailed analysis and factual explanation of laws from the real journalists. Most want to care, but the goal of R’s is to create confusion and doubt
THINK jeremylottdiary Is this an attempt at satire? Otherwise you should be ashamed such utter mediocrity was approved for public consumption. I have inane & useless thoughts too. Should I start submitting them to NBC?
THINK Maybe because it’s a fraud?
THINK I care.
THINK Because in Reality they all know it's a Sham!!!
THINK Nobody cares because both parties have devolved into nothing more than evil middle schoolers trying to destroy each other for the sake of winning, and becoming head mean girl. The people are over it. Grow the heck up politicians!!!
THINK The role civic education is to inform you, not to turn you into a patriot. Either you love your country or what it does for you.
THINK I didn’t care simply because the outcome was the same as the House’s outcome. The party in power made a pre-determined decision and surprised no one.
THINK That's what happens when the little boy cries wolf too many times.
THINK The media has been treating this like it was a reality show from day one. The cried there was not enough pizzazz, and no Matlock Moment. Notice: Clear cut cases don’t need razzmatazz. Our country deserves a better media.
THINK We’re tuning it out because the GOP decided the result before it even started.Why watch a ball game if you already know the final score? So, the people will serve the country (since Congress doesn’t) and vote Trump and these self-focused people out in Nov. 2018 was just the start
THINK 👏🏻🇺🇸👏🏻🇺🇸TRUMP 2020👏🏻🇺🇸👏🏻🇺🇸
THINK People don't care because there is zero political compromise. That existed well before Trump. It will exist no matter which Democrat would happen to win as well. The media is 100% a huge contributor to this.
THINK Maybe we don’t care because you people have lied so much and created so much faux outrage.
THINK I beg to differ. If anything, it made us more aware of the things that do go on out of the public's knowledge in government. It strengthens our belief that this president doesn't play by the rules.
THINK They have tuned out impeachment because its partisan and the attacks on the President have been non stop since he took office. That's why we tuned it out.
THINK Irrelevant silly process. Especially when you know the result. Who watches a game after it’s over and knows the score?
THINK No Americans tuned out Senate trial bc it was a cover up scam
THINK Boy, how truly impotent will the corrupt MSM be as of today? To lie so much, so often, and have every biased attempt to undo an election soundly rebuked by the American public. The sad part is they still don't see themselves as we see them; Untrustworthy and completely biased.
THINK If we don’t care about this, we don’t deserve the country the Founders left us. And that must make them weep in their graves.
THINK ‘...no one has made us care.’
THINK The only ones caring are the Washington ton crowd and queen Nancy.
THINK idc let me know when its over
THINK 1. Many ppl watch cable news. 2. Some, like me, are in a market where the 3 networks are actually not showing it. 3. I instead go online to find out what's happening.
THINK Maybe we are going to have to have our freedom taken away from us by an absolute monarch to become interested in our fate. Sadly, because so many will suffer. The cruelty shown to immigrants will be turned on us.
THINK It's for media and dnc donors.
THINK Very long commentary! But I consider Trump is impeachable for all his bad actions: racism, supremacism, kkk-cism, Putin-cism, tax-cism, ambient-cism, crazy-cism, arrogant-cism, Kroasia-cism, and being a very bad White House administrator. Sorry, very long criti-cism!
THINK What a load of BS.
THINK Because Republicans told us how it would turn out before it started. A sham trial isn’t that interesting. People of all ages were glued to the TV during Watergate, and that was about a break-in to affect an election. But we hadn’t been disempowered before the hearings began.
THINK No, the real reason is that it's turning into a partisan circus. Neither side really cares about the truth. Both sides are towing the party lines like good little drones. People are tired of it. The Coronavirus is more interesting.
THINK America is tuning out the Impeachment because they can read between the lines. Democrats have no facts for their case against the president. They rushed impeachment without calling witnesses or requesting documentation. The they expect the GOP to be fair when they weren’t.
THINK Bias news media has a lot to do with that. Bias news media is destroying America.
THINK It's in the book I'm sure.
THINK I’m watching
THINK They will care soon enough. They just got their first dictator. SenateGOP you’re a disgrace to this country. AmbJohnBolton the nerve of you praising people for speaking up and YOU remain quiet. That’s not a patriot. None of you are. CoverUpGOP maddow washingtonpost CNN
THINK What?
THINK Well you have certainly tried to push that conspiracy As part of the democrat socialist cult party member propaganda arm you’ve created more stories to entice the poor reasoned leftists
THINK No one understands how serious it is. The integrity of the Office of the President is at stake.
THINK There are multitudes of ways to get real time information on the impeachment if you are using tv channels as your only source then you are not counting on the other ways ppl obtain information. In the 1990’s it was on the nightly news, and newspapers. There are more options today
THINK I’ve largely tuned it out because we knew the outcome was already baked in. I just want his legacy permanently stained and for him to be wounded headed into the election, and that’s been accomplished.
THINK They don’t care because they have no sense of patriotism. They all know Trump is a criminal.
THINK The wrong partisan spelled partisan wrong in the tagline
THINK 75% want Trump impeach and remove