"independents or Republicans"

>"The impeachment at this point isn't having any effect because
>it's not moving independents or Republicans against Trump,"
>said Fordham University political scientist Monika McDermott
>at a briefing about the polling results.

I would be embarrassed at attaching my name, field, and institution to analysis like this. And I'm a nobody, in an even less rigorous field, who is an adjunct mercenary and doesn't even have an institution so much as a bare desk in one of the three places that pay me.

But for real, the above isn't thoughtful. Nor is implicitly accepting notion that there is *any* way of criticizing Trump that would be seen as legitimate by Republicans.

I still wish the Dems had focused more firmly on the obvious crime of enriching himself with public funds though. The Ukraine thing is clearer than the Russia thing, but double dipping by charging taxpayers so the secret service can do their job at his real estate holdings is the sort of person that anybody who's ever checked to see if the coast is clear before they pocketed some non-dairy creamer can get behind.