Just in the last two weeks, Congress has passed a massive defense bill, a huge spending package, major commercial regulations, and now, a landmark trade deal. Yet if all you did was flip through the cable news channels, glance at the front page of most newspapers, or scroll through social media, almost all the content you’d see would be razor-focused on the impeachment of President Trump.
Andrew Yang was the only candidate on stage at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate who understood this clear mistake in political priorities and media attention. When asked about impeachment, he didn’t do what all the other candidates did: offer broad fist-thumping condemnations of Trump. Instead, Yang said, “We have to stop being obsessed with impeachment… and start solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.”
“We have to stop being obsessed with impeachment… and start solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place,” @AndrewYang says at the #DemDebate to applause
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This is exactly right. The impeachment of the president is a hyperpartisan affair, and we all already know the outcome: acquittal in the Senate. Yang made the excellent point that Democrats need to stop acting like Trump is the cause of all our problems and instead actually listen to the underlying issues plaguing peoples’ lives. Unfortunately, this debate shows that unless he (or Tulsi Gabbard) somehow ends up being the nominee, that’s highly unlikely to happen.
