Washington • The debate over impeaching President Trump reveals an irony: Those who favor it have far more respect for the president’s supporters than those who oppose it.
Critics of impeachment argue that the effort to remove Trump from office over his open invitations of foreign meddling in our elections will only ignite the Trump "base." Those who say we should let this all go see his backers as an excitable immovable bloc of people closed to reasoned argument or new information.
Thus are roughly 40% of our fellow citizens cast as an unthinking blob that will embrace anything Trump says and turn out in droves in 2020 to beat back the elitist fake newsers and deep staters no matter what the facts are.