For much of this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used Abraham Lincoln as a human shield. Pressed by the media on calls to impeach President Trump, she regularly quoted Lincoln, who said three years before becoming president: “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”It was a convenient mantra, precisely what you’d expect a politician to say if she agreed with the prevailing public sentiment. For months, that sentiment was clear: Opinion polls consistently showed that a majority of Americans did not think Trump should be impeached, versus about 35 percent who felt …read more
Source:: The New Republic
