Tulsi Gabbard is right: Impeachment would ‘tear apart’ the country

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President Trump might soon face impeachment, but not every congressional Democrat is on board.

Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a long-shot 2020 presidential candidate, isn’t joining in the impeachment chorus, even though the Democratic House coalition, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will officially pursue an impeachment inquiry. As she is wont to do, Gabbard broke with party leadership during a CNN interview, reiterating her long-standing position that “impeachment would be terribly divisive” and saying it would “further tear apart our already very divided country.”

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