Steve Deace: Why the 2018 election will be even worse than 2016

Source: Conservative Review | June 12, 2017 | Steve Deace

Impeachment will be the main issue in next year’s midterm elections, which is exactly why 2018 will be even more insufferable than was 2016.

The ground has shifted since former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony last week generated a bigger television audience than the NBA Finals, as Byron York at the Washington Examiner points out in his superb analysis. York makes several good points in his breakdown, but this is the most important one: Impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one.

In political reality, it’s not some scholarly debate over what the Constitution means by “high crimes and misdemeanors” that matters. What really matters is what 218 elected members of the House of Representatives believe it means.

And as Matthew Continetti keenly observed at the Free Beacon, by giving Comey the “crooked Hillary” treatment, Trump may have walked face-first into the Democrats’ clenched fist. Especially since one of Trump’s sons has already gone on record contradicting his father’s defense against Comey’s accusations.

Meanwhile, you have independent counsel Robert Mueller, who is close friends with Comey, putting together an investigative dream team. And given the history of these independent counsels, the odds of Mueller coming back with a “nothing to see here folks” are about the odds of Trump giving up Twitter.

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So while we wait on the actual judicial returns, too much of the Republican legislative agenda is to leave Obama’s progressive agenda in place (confirmed by the fact GOP strategists want to run against the media in 2018). That is a clear signal they’re not planning on procuring that many policy accomplishments, so they’ll need a boogeyman message to get out the vote next year.

Furthermore, since Democrat policies are unpopular, and the Republicans would rather manage the swamp than drain it, both sides will run on the boogeyman message.

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That leaves impeachment as the only real issue for each side to drive out its base with. Therefore, Democrats will run on “vote for us to impeach Trump” … and Republicans will run on “they’re going to impeach Trump if you don’t vote for us.” Translation: Both sides are really running on the same message — “We know you hate us, but what other choice do you have?”

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