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They won't push past the line of "normalcy" which is the same useless line we crossed on the way here. Fucking hell.
If they don't impeach and prosecute with impunity, the whole effort is wasted. Everyone of relevance to the current administration needs to end up in jail by 2028. That's what we're voting for in November.
They could impeach, but there is no universe where he gets convicted in the Senate. They won't ever have enough votes for that. He could literally rape and murder a child on live TV and Republicans would just say "ehh, they were probably a liberal anyway so they deserve it."
I'd say there is 99% chance they fuck up at every opportunity.
It might not be an issue if the sitting party refuses to release the reins of power.
So much of the current political system works because the parties are joined at the hip. But as Trump leads the federal government into increasingly fascist forms, the leadership demonstrates itself significantly less willing to just go-along get-along with the historic Reagan Era neoliberal order.
Why relinquish your Congressional majority if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will let you keep it? Why abide by the legislative branch at all if you've got Palantir running the Treasury and Google/Microsoft running the Pentagon?
Even in bright blue states like Minnesota, the response to outright fascist takeover at the highest levels of government is to raise your fist in defiance and then... give up on your reelection campaign for governor.