2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Trump will no longer be useful to the GOP come Jan. 21st!! [View all]unblock
(52,241 posts)unless and until they know they'll pay too high a political cost for not doing so. keep in mind that most of the republicans in congress are from very safe republican districts (thanks to gerrymandering) meaning a *lot* of *republicans* are going to have to hate donnie before that happens.
democrats hating donnie is, sadly, almost completely irrelevant to the impeachment process.
either donnie needs to do something salacious and the video goes viral, or he has to do something politically suicidal, like veto a republican tax cut (and even he's not crazy enough to do the latter, at least).
republicans are certainly not going to remove him just because they're worried. in fact, right now, they're thinking he'll rubber stamp everything they've dreamed of, so impeachment is the last thing they're thinking about.