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by bediger4000 48 days ago
I personally have come to the conclusion that the Dems should have sacrificed Clinton in 1998-99 so as to set a precedent that presidents must fly right or we'll fire them. Yes, even though Ken Starr and his subordinate Bret Kavanaugh were corrupt, partsan hacks.

My Rep is Lauren Boebert, who is famous, a Qanon, and absolutely incompetent. Let's circle back after primaries to see what changes.

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I can't imagine that it would have helped. Republicans routinely elect gross incompetents and clear offenders of all sorts, and "Clinton got a perfectly legal and consensual blow job two decades ago" is a meaningless excuse. If it weren't him they'd cite someone else, or just make up a fiction, and Boebert is wont to do.

I think ditching Clinton would have been a fine thing to do, but I'm under no illusions that things would be even the slightest bit better today. Republicans have invented themselves a complete fake universe and no precedent matters.