News Analysis: After Trump impeachment hearings, both sides scramble
I was reading this article on the impeachment, but one aspect they're exploring is how both sides are hearing the same testimony, seeing the same things, and yet reaching diametrically opposed conclusions about what they heard and saw.
Trump says "we are winning big," but who can say for sure?
But I found this part interesting:
Is it really as severe as some people are making it out to be? Have we become two separate countries now (metaphorically speaking)?
I was reading this article on the impeachment, but one aspect they're exploring is how both sides are hearing the same testimony, seeing the same things, and yet reaching diametrically opposed conclusions about what they heard and saw.
Trump has expressed frustration that his House allies were unable to halt a cascade of damaging disclosures. But as in his previous crises and scandals, he projected both a sense of victimhood and faith that he would ultimately prevail.
“Keep fighting tough, Republicans, you are dealing with human scum who have taken Due Process and all of the Republican Party’s rights away from us during the most unfair hearings in American History,” he tweeted. “But we are winning big, and they will soon be on our turf.”
The president’s confidence may be warranted by the calcified partisanship that has made public opinion about the president almost unmovable.
Trump says "we are winning big," but who can say for sure?
But I found this part interesting:
“We are living in two separate countries, with two separate newspapers, two separate cable channels, two sets of people with completely opposite conclusions,” said Frank Luntz, a Los Angeles-based GOP pollster who has conducted several focus groups during the impeachment inquiry.
“If you are an honest pollster, this is something you have never experienced in your lifetime. Where you stand depends on who you speak to. It’s not just social media, it is society — we don’t talk to people we disagree with,” he said. “And the consequences of this are awful.”
With help from conservative media allies, Republicans have tried to paint the Democratic-led probe as muddy, confusing and a product of Washington insiders who resent Trump and never accepted the legitimacy of his election.
During the hearings, GOP lawmakers brusquely dismissed witnesses’ recollections as “secondhand” and questioned their patriotism or integrity.
Is it really as severe as some people are making it out to be? Have we become two separate countries now (metaphorically speaking)?