Unless Pres. Trump's wall of Republican support begins to crack, don’t expect the hearings to move public opinion very much, matthewjdowd writes.
It was the summer of 1973. I had just turned 12 and I was entranced by the public hearings into the Watergate affair and President Nixon that were being watched across America.
Now we are faced with a brand new examination of potential presidential corruption involving President Trump. Public hearings will begin this week in Congress to attempt to figure out what happened and who, if anyone, is responsible. Many eyes and ears will be paying close attention, and I wonder how many younger folks are going to tune in as I did 46 years ago and be inspired to get active in politics in some way.
This partisan alignment in Congress on impeachment isn’t primarily because of partisan moves by Democrats, it is because Republicans seem to have a hair trigger defensive posture towards President Trump. In 1998 many Democrats joined with Republicans to investigate President Clinton, and now no Republicans, at this moment, seem willing to hold the president accountable. Let's see as the hearings progress and information is revealed, if there is any movement on this front.
In fact, in 1973, Nixon started with roughly the same approval numbers as Bill Clinton, and as the hearings progressed and information was revealed Nixon’s approval numbers fell and the cry for impeachment rose among the public.
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