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The Impeachment Trap

The Impeachment Trap
Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (C) speaks as (L-R) Chairman of House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Chairwoman of House Financial Services Committee Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Chairwoman of House Oversight and Reform Committee Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) listen during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Dec. 10, 2019. Chairman Nadler announced that the Judiciary Committee is introducing two articles on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for the next steps in the House impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Alex Wong/Getty Images
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Progressives, Democratic strategists, and the powerful elite class fell into a political trap. They dug it themselves. Their only hope of escape: complicit media outlets and an ignorant public.