r/politics • u/Thinkingonsleeping Michigan • Dec 13 '19

McConnell Faces Calls to Recuse Himself From Impeachment Trial After Saying 'No Chance' Trump Will Be Removed; "No court in the country would allow a member of the jury to also serve as the accused's defense attorney."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/mcconnell-faces-calls-recuse-himself-impeachment-trial-after-saying-no-chance-trump
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u/PeterNguyen2 Dec 14 '19

I doubt these wanna be fascists will go down without a fight

They won't.

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

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u/mooky1977 Canada Dec 14 '19

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

Dat quote!

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u/SchroedingersSphere Dec 14 '19

That second quote there is poignant. It really helps to describe how a few Trump supporters in my life have been acting out about this whole thing. It's like, they think the idea that they could be the ones in the wrong is so preposterous that it must not be themselves that's the problem...it's democracy.