No kidding

Trumpworld claims that the impeachment of Donald Fredovich is a partisan attempt at a "coup." It also claims that using U.S. defense aid to bribe a foreign country into putting an opponent of the president in an embarrassing position and obstructing Congress by forbidding members of the administration to testify before congressional committees which have a legitimate reason to want to year from them don't "rise to the level of impeachment," and that there is no evidence of the president's guilt on either count (the White House's own transcript of his conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky and the president's own public statements apparently don't count for some reason).

In addition, the Senate Republican majority, comparing apples to oranges, wants to use the same rules both sides agreed to during the Clinton impeachment when there was no particular need for either side to call witnesses this time, leaving open the option that Majority Leader McConnell could silence potentially damning testimony from individuals who used to be members of the administration.

Well, surprise, surprise. By a margin of four percent in each of two questions- whether each side is behaving in a partisan matter in the impeachment process, and which side is behaving in a more partisan manner- a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows that more voters point the finger at the Republicans than at the Democrats.

Those who purport to think that impeachment will work in the president's favor in November seem to me to be profoundly misreading the lay of the land. That Mr. Trump will be acquitted by a party-line vote in the Senate and then (implausibly as usual) claim vindication strikes me as beyond question. But from the look of things, the more rigged the rigged trial is allowed to look, the worse it will be for the Republicans this Fall.

Evidently since denying open facts has worked with a substantial number of Americans over the past three years, Trumpworld is cocky enough to think that it will work with at least enough of them to manage another freakish electoral vote majority in 2020. They can't seem to get it through their heads that they have yet to succeed in buffaloing a majority of the American electorate since the day Mr. Trump announced his candidacy, and the more blatantly dishonest they are in the matter of impeachment the smaller their chance of keeping the even minority of voters who support him in line.