And we could actually win. For a change.

No. We should not try to influence our representatives to impeach Trump. 

1. We must win in 2020 Unless we really can´t avoid it, (see below)  we shouldn´t  do anything that prevents (1)

2. Many  voters are offended by the process of impeachment .It´s a sensible position which some of them  held when Ken Starr abused his appointment as Special Counsel  or whatever he was called. Years ago  I described   sitting in a Boston hospital's major surgery  waiting room as a woman attorney ( ¨I´ve never voted for a Democrat ¨) volunteered to two of us - strangers, also waiting - that she was offended by Starr. So much so that when he was addressing the Oklahoma Bar Association she found herself writing ¨He must be removed¨ . 

3. If we impeach we lose our chance of getting her vote. And we can´t afford that.

Q.E.D.

One of the reason for my  very high opinion about Obama -been challenged, fair enough- is IMHO he did the right things .  first.

In 2009 he could have spent his bullets  seeking to encourage the prosecution of  the many known offenders from the sub prime fiasco. Deeply deserved. Check out Sarah Gordon in Saturday´s Financial Times.Instead he saved Chrysler. 

Didn´t have to happen. In a room full of serious ,qualified advisors when a majority said ¨Let Chrysler fail¨he listened , also, to those who said ¨No¨ and decided the ¨No s had it.¨ Didn´t have to happen.

Wall Street collapsed in August 1929. Then again in Sept 2008.

Despite many well intentioned experiments there was no recovery worth the name the first time.

Obama took office in the first quarter of 2009.Unemployment sky rocketing. For 3 quarters.  In the first quarter of 2010 unemployment turned down , and never turned up again. It didn´t happen because he punished  the stupid / evil players Gordon describes.  Mostly they never were . Pity.  They deserved it. But less than the whole world deserved to be saved.As didn´t happen after 1929 . We got Adolph instead.

Meanwhile Obama , (I some times said to myself)

¨and on the seventh day he rested´

was  doing whatever it took  to get  the final vote he needed to achieve Obamacare´s breakthrough installation .  The first serious movement towards giving  American citizens the protection from needless medical pain that Europe has enjoyed  for 60 years. 

Wasn´t enough? Sure. But enough to start moving us in the direction of ¨enough¨.

If that required courting Susan Collins, there are worse things than courting Susan Collins.  

If we can´t avoid it.

If the only way to prevent Boy Donald from doing irreparable harm- a War for example-was to impeach  we might be forced to do that. And pay the consequences of a President Pence. Whose chance of being  re-elected would be worryingly  increased  by the increase in his vote by  those like the Oklahoman lawyer  who disdained  impeachment. A high price to pay.

But only if we can´t avoid it. Don´t impeach. Elect.