One of Clinton's partners in the Whitewater real-estate investment scandal was Susan McDougal, and she refused to testify to a grand jury put together by Kenn Starr and spent 22 months in jail. She says she refused to testify to prevent perjuring herself, not to protect Bill Clinton. Clinton later pardoned her to end her time in prison. Ultimately, all that could be proven against Clinton is that he lied under oath about receiving a blow job in the white house from a subordinate. While that lie under oath was a crime, it was not a threat to democracy, free and fair elections, our constitution or the basic tenets of shared power and checks and balances that serve as a foundation our nation is constructed upon. Nothing Clinton was accused of was a threat to those things and the events around Whitewater happened well before his Presidency began.
Trump has both overtly and covertly solicited foreign powers to interfere in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in his favor. He has openly obstructed congress' and a special investigator's authority to investigate these matters and told those closest to his conduct to not comply with subpoenas and otherwise refuse to offer testimony. So let us say that is it, there is nothing else to be found if all stones could be turned over. Well, those actions alone are absolutely threats to our democracy, free and fair elections, our constitution, shared power and checks and balances.
So those closest to Trump are honoring his requests and refusing to testify under oath. Why are they not in jail like Susan McDougal? Why are the Democrats not enforcing the constitution and ensuring that either:
These people's testimony is heard
They get tossed in jail for willful non-compliance with the law
They have to violently resist the law to avoid testifying or going to jail
Instead, the Dems are going to let people like Mulvaney and the President himself avoid testifying. They are settling for calling a few witnesses distal to the President and providing an incomplete picture of his conduct to an American people that are mostly blasé about politics. And most here say, "Fuck yeah! Look at the polling! The GOP is going to hang themselves trying to protect Trump!" Well, if polling was reliable, Trump would have never been President. And you can bet in 2020 there will be a more rabid base turning out at near 100% coupled with more efforts both foreign and domestic to subvert the votes of everyone else.
As a final thought for those finding comfort in this quixotic impeachment effort and the polls showing some support for impeachment and removal: How did polling suddenly become so unreliable in 2016? Is it that there was some hidden glitch in all the algorithms that was suddenly exposed by Trump? Or was there some other factor(s) involved that influenced the election results and made pre-election polls unreliable? If it is the latter, what has happened between 2016 and now to ensure it doesn't happen again?