"Democrats are just weak when it comes to standing up to the GOP."
No. Just no. In fact, hell no. There was absolutely nothing weak about the impeachment managers or the case they put on.
As I said in another thread tonight, they were playing with a deck that was stacked against them, and they knew it. In a courtrom, there is a thing called jury selection, wherein both sides get to screen potential jurors in order to weed out those who are biased, those who already have their minds made up, those who have a vested interest in the outcome. In a Senate impeachment trial, there is no jury selection. The makeup of the jury is already set in stone. That's why everyone who is in the business of predicting such things accurately predicted the outcome of this trial: aquittal.
Weak would be the House not bothering to impeach since no one expected a conviction. But that's not what happened. The House DID impeach, because it was the right thing to do. The impeachment managers put on a strong and powerful case, because that was the right thing to do. The ONLY "weak" people in that Senate chamber were the GOP Senators who voted to acquit.
If you want to disagree with any of the tactics used by the Democrats, feel free. I think that's fair game. But calling Jamie Raskin and the others (https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/02/politics/house-impeachment-managers/) "weak" is where I have to draw the line. There is absolutely NOTHING "weak" about any of those people. They are the poster kids for "strong."
Look up "strong" in the dictionary, This picture should be next to it.
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