Perspective: Republicans won’t vote to remove Trump from office, no matter what Cohen said
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer, testifies Wednesday on Capitol Hill. By Matthew Dallek Matthew Dallek Bio Follow Matthew Dallek, an associate professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, is author of"Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security.
Such optimism among some liberals and Never Trumpers is laudable for its faith in the durability of the Constitution’s system of checks and balances. But it’s ultimately misplaced in the context of contemporary Republican politics and our prolonged epoch of partisan polarization. Republicans may never be persuaded to impeach Trump. There are too many political and ideological incentives for them to stand with him.
That is why on virtually every major vote in the past two years the vast majority of congressional Republicans have followed Trump’s plea, made during the government shutdown over the border wall impasse, to “just hang together.” Sen. Richard C. Shelby characterized Trump’s message as “just stay cohesive,” adding “he’s right on that.” “Just hang together” could well be the GOP’s motto in the Trump era, a rallying cry likely to be resurrected in any impeachment debate.
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