US question, but why don’t Democrats just vote for impeachment basically every day? Whether it’s for the Jack Smith findings, the unwillingness to hold up the 14th amendment, whatever. Like, is there a statute of limitations for impeachment? Is there a limited number of crimes valid for it?
Even if it never succeeded, it would send a message that he needs to be careful and if he makes too many Republicans mad he could lose his job.
One major thing holding the Democrats back from this is that the Democrats still haven’t had it beaten into their skulls that the rules of politics are dead, dead, dead. They still seem to think that decorum matters and that if they just sigh and accept the Republicans’ actions now they’ll eventually get their turn later.
See also: Tea time prior to the Trump’s inauguration. The cognitive dissonance between preemptively pardoning your loved ones and having tea with the potential perpetrator is goddamn insane.
Though as I’m typing this I see that maybe Biden was sucking up to his new overlord? Maybe both actions were aimed at keeping his family safe in any upcoming purge.