Impeachment is a hill democrats will die on, even the ones that don't support it


This whole impeachment deal is like a messy divorce.

First, you had Ma and Pa fighting behind closed doors that eventually dragged out into the public.

Then you had the lawyers fighting over the rules of the divorce.

Now, the children in the middle of it are getting involved.

Over the weekend, it was reported by several news outlets that Representative Jeff Van Drew (D) of New Jersey would be switching parties sometime this week. The move comes as house representatives get ready to vote on articles of impeachment. Of course, backlash soon followed.

Today, according to The New York Times, seven staff members of Drew's office in Washington have announced their resignation. In a letter published by the Times, signed by five of the seven members, concerns were raised over putting the interests of the presidents before the safety of the country.

"Congressman Van Drew's decision to join the ranks of the Republican Party led by Donald Trump does not align with the values we brought to this job when we joined his office." The statement reads. The resignations leave just one member left in Drew's office - his chief of staff.

It gets worse from there too.

Unsurprisingly Democrats have labeled him as a traitor, the Governor of New Jersey even going as far as implying he was coward. But Republicans also threw their hats into the ring with some now calling him a weasel.

What surprises me most is that  in a two-hour teleconference with voters in his district, he said he would remain a Democrat.

"I'm absolutely not changing," he said.

So he’s a hypocrite, saying one thing and doing another.

What angers me the most about this, is that he betrayed everyone that voted for him when he ran because he was afraid to lose his seat next year. It's self-serving before anything else. To hell with what the Democratic party stood for, Drew only cared about protecting his time in office, not what the people in his district voted him into office for - his job.

Whatever happens next to the representative will be his cross to bear. Maybe his play will work and he'll win next year's election off of the back of Trump's endorsement. More than likely it won't because the Republican challengers, David Richter and Brian Fitzherbert have no plans of dropping out of the race. Instead he now has to fight a two front battle because Montclair State University Professor Brigid Harrison is now considering a Democratic run against him.

Ultimately, the key take away of this whole ordeal is what this could mean for the impeachment inquiry. National polls have shown that support for the impeachment inquiry has been at a stand still in recent months with public opinion varying only slightly. A Democrat switching sides during the process could give the President and his supporters enough fuel or motivation to sway public opinion.

The impeachment inquiry is a terrible situation made worse by entrenched parties not wavering in their viewpoints. Drew made a bad situation worse by switching parties and now with the exodus of his staff and his seat in grave danger, it seems his plan has backfired.

He chose  a messy, messy, messy hill he's decided to die on.





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