The Big Untold Story of Impeachment? It’s Incredibly Popular.
The overlooked story of the past three months is that support for removing the president has remained strong.
The cynical read on the impeachment of President Donald Trump is that it hasn’t changed anything: Here we are, weeks into the process and on the eve of a House floor vote, and there’s scant movement in public and elite opinion to show for it. Notwithstanding the mountain of new evidence uncovered by the House Intelligence Committee, the battle lines remain the same: Most Democratic House members will vote to impeach the president, while acquittal in the Senate is a foregone conclusion.
But maybe the most salient fact about impeachment is how little something else has changed. Impeachment is incredibly
