I highly doubt that. Though the political atmosphere has become increasingly and contentiously partisan in recent years, starting with the filibusters McConnell pulled under Obama (and the refusal to vote on the new justice etc). Impeachment’s started with Clinton - should we have made the same argument then?
We have processes by which to hold the president accountable. Should we just not use them when warranted because of optics?
The fact that three Democrats have not gone along with impeachment, and zero Republicans have, speaks more to how much the Democrats have collectively invested in this sham, than any partisanship on the GOP side.
The only message from the Democrats since they lost the 2016 election is that Trump is unfit for office and must be removed. That is literally ALL they’ve talked about or done for the last three years. They had to vote to impeach or they would look like hypocrites. Even so, one Democratic congressman switched sides, and two, including Tulsi Gabbard, sat out the vote.
On the other hand, have you forgotten how many Never Trumpers there are on the Republican side? Don’t you think that, if Trump had done something genuinely impeachable, the members of his own party who have spoken out against him in the past would have voted against him, now that they had the chance? The truth is, no GOP congressmen support impeachment because it’s a clear farce.
Speaking of Never Trumpers, I’ve watched as many of them, over the past three years, have steadily moved onto Trump’s side, not only because of the good things he’s done for America, but also because of the relentless and increasingly insane attacks on him from the Democratic/Media Complex.
There’s a new political reality blooming. The Democratic Party is going to collapse if they can’t pull it together, because the rot is really starting to show. They, and the Republicans, have done well in presenting slightly different versions of each other to the electorate every four years, ensuring that the power and the process stays essentially the same. But a broad dissatisfaction has built up among voters on both sides against the status quo. The Republicans were very lucky that their candidate for 2016 had a message that responded with those centrists and conservatives who wanted a change. “Drain The Swamp!” “Make America Great Again!” Trump’s message was so effective that he even pulled over some Bernie voters after Sanders was pushed out by the Clinton Machine. People want change.
I know I’m probably rambling, so I’ll wrap up with this. If Sanders has been afforded his proper chance by the Democratic Party and won the nomination, there is no doubt in my mind that he would be President Sanders today, and America would look, good or bad, very different.
But the Democratic Party and the media rigged the primaries against him, and they set in motion the circumstances that led to the Trump presidency, didn’t they?
And now the same Democratic/Media Complex that thwarted Democratic voters in the 2016 primaries is pursuing an effort to undo the 2016 election, and remove Trump from office, and amazingly, progressive people like you are totally cool with it, and still support them.