If Pence is DS, and congress/senate is majority DS, then why the theatrics now? Why not vote for removal when Trump was impeached? Pence takes over and rides out the remainder of the term, repubs nominate him as the candidate for 2020 and suddenly the Dem path to victory is much easier and nobody is the wiser. Heck, there's probably not even any cheating required. Pence would fold like a bedsheet over covid and that would serve to further demoralize the republican base and make a takeover that much easier.
So why the extra year of ultimately pointless theatrics? What's the actual purpose behind it? So far, I've only come up with 2 answers:
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Trump is still playing some sort of long-game which is about to end in a huge reveal, Ocean's 11 style. (looking less likely by the hour)
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Trump is in on the whole thing and the point is to get everyone riled up so they can weed out the "inconvenient" people who would make trouble in their so called "great reset".
Maybe I'm way off-base and somebody else here can come up with another angle but I've been mulling this for weeks and haven't come up with anything better.
I don't think anyone wants the DS to be in control of anything. But given what we've seen, there definitely appears to be someone or something behind all of this.
But okay, lets say it really is just politicians being politicians. Pence and half the repubs in the building just completely fucked their political careers. 75 million people aren't going to forget what happened yesterday very easily and those actions will be remembered in following elections. Sure some of the mainstays like Romney and Graham may cheat their way into staying in office for a while but not everyone can, and being a neutered political hack in a dwindling minority party is not power.
What about outside of politics? Do all of these politicians really have careers waiting to accept them with open arms when they inevitably do get voted out of office? I doubt it. Again, maybe some of the big fish like Pence or Graham might but not everyone is a Pence or Graham.
Paid under the table by special interests? Maybe. But SIGs are like drug dealers in that they pay out just enough to keep stringing people along and any smart politician knows the only way they keep getting that gravy is by being in a position to make themselves useful to those groups. Not really within the politicians best interest, long-term, to make such a short-sighted move that will likely end up making them less useful in the end.
Now I'm not a politician (thank God), so maybe I'm not seeing an angle they do. But if I was, I'm looking at the political landscape, I look at the cards on the table. And to me, the smart play is to stand with people like Josh Hawley and object. Because even if I would sell out my own mother to advance myself, I'd be far better off telling my constituents "look, I stood with Trump when it mattered" and having a far higher likelihood of retaining and advancing my position.
And now you oversimplify again, and demand that the DS is either all-powerful, Or doesn’t exist. Stop wasting my time with this small-brain stuff.