Opinion: The Democrats plan to investigate their way to victory. Here’s why it won’t work, writes jasonrileywsj
Democrats have settled on a strategy for making Donald Trump a one-term president, and it amounts to rehashing last week’s Michael Cohen fiasco over and over between now and November 2020.
The Democratic Party now controls nearly two dozen House committees, with the power to convene hearings, question administration officials and subpoena documents. For the next 20 months, we’ll be treated to hearing after hearing that reveals facts we already know. The goal is to keep the political press writing about scandal and little else....
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