How did Impeachment hurt them again?

than a referendum on the Clinton years. It was dumb.

Say, if you had a crystal ball.

It's politically smart not to answer hypotheticals like this. Of course, once you do the politically smart thing and don't answer, then we are no longer talking about morality, we are talking politics.

Gore lost in 2000 because he was a poor candidate who chose to shy away from a popular President.

That is why the American public were so frustrated with Republicans impeaching Clinton. But they understood why Nixon was forced from office. But they didn't understand his crimes before impeachment was actually underway.

This is an entirely different situation in a completely different time, in an altogether different environment, with a totally different electorate, so I'm not sure how the Clinton impeachment and its political aftermath are in anyway predictive of the political outcome of a Trump impeachment.

The OP is asserting that impeachment=loss of the House in 2020.

sides are pointing to the Clinton impeachment as proof for their position. My point is that the Clinton impeachment tells us nothing about the potential political fallout of a Trump impeachment.

I haven't weighed in on either side of the argument, partly for that reason.

Will you and Nancy feel vindicated?

I would take any legal course of action that is most likely to get rid of Trump, regardless of whether it's "the right thing" or not.

even if it costs us the House in 2020?

before the election, Pence takes office, pardons Trump and he walks from all possible federal charges.

is the right thing.

To punish the Trump Crime family, we need to get as many people to vote Dem in 2020 as possible.

If we lose, they are less likely to ever go to prison where they belong.

than in midterms. If there was ever a time where Democrats could afford to take that risk it is now. If we don't impeach Trump maybe we can still win a close Presidential election, but there will be no way we can take the Senate without the extra energy to our base impeaching Trump will bring us. Then in 2022 we will lose the house and sense whoever the Democratic President is he or she will get nothing done due to republican obstruction and a republican will be president come 2024.

I don't have any reason to believe that "doing the right thing" would cost us anything politically, and it's very possible that failing to do so could cause us much greater harm.

Basically, I don't buy into your underlying assumptions.