Opinion: What Nancy Pelosi gets right
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 2. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 6 at 1:15 PM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has two pieces of advice that don’t sit well with the most progressive members of her party. However, she is right on both counts.
She’s not being a wet blanket; she’s speaking from experience in 2018. The party elected its share of leftists — in deep-blue states. The heavy lifting, however, was done by moderates in swing states. To reiterate, not a single candidate supported by Our Revolution, a progressive group that grew out of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential bid, flipped a House seat from red to blue.
That’s a perfectly reasonable argument, but there are several responses. First, Trump won’t be removed. Two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to onvict and remove him. Period. It might be fulfilling to watch Senate Republicans squirm and vote to keep a lawless, unfit president in office, but if these people could not bring themselves to vote for a motion of censure after Trump’s Charlottesville remarks, they aren’t going to remove a guy with 90 percent or so approval in their party.
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