January 13, 2021
While much of the the next three years was under the cloud of impeachment threats, the actual impeachment vote in the House didn't come until December 19, 2019. The Senate trial started on January 22nd, 2020 — and it ended on February 5th in acquittal.
So, just a year later, and they have voted on a second impeachment. But its reported that the Senate won't reconvene (prior to the inauguration) to hold a trial.
So it’s not about removal. Among the motivations of the democrats is to disqualify Trump from running for President again (as Pelosi admitted in her recent 60-Minutes interview). With that, the Senate may try this after Trump is out.
Importantly, this political chaos in the U.S. has weakened the U.S. economically, not just in this pandemic recovery, but over the course of the four-year term. And it has opened the door for China to emerge as the global economic superpower.
Remember, we looked at this China superpower scenario prior to the election.
As I asked then, what rational person thinks it's a good idea for a communist country to become the global economic superpower? I suspect they won't be promoting democracy.
And you can see in this survey we looked at last October (from Pew Research) China is nearly there already, i.e. global economic superpower …
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This is a sample population survey, asking people around the world who they believe to be the leading economic power in the world. This results of this study demonstrate where China has been buying influence (on that front, many gains were made in the global financial crisis) and how China’s neighbors feel about the prospects of a world led by China (i.e. not so fond of the idea).
With this in mind, while most of the world continues the pursue an exit from pandemic-induced recession, China is set to do the hottest growth (better than 7%), in four years (since Trump got entered office).
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