For much of this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used Abraham Lincoln as a human shield. Pressed by the media on calls to impeach President Trump, she regularly quoted Lincoln, who said three years before becoming president: “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”
It was a convenient mantra, precisely what you'd expect a politician to say if she agreed with the prevailing public sentiment. For months, that sentiment was clear: Opinion polls consistently showed that a majority of Americans did not think Trump should be impeached, versus about 35 percent who felt the opposite. So Pelosi urged patience and “process”—that is, when she wasn't arguing that impeachment was “so divisive,” Trump is “just not worth it,” or, oxymoronically, that he was “becoming self-impeachable.”
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