What a Biden impeachment fight would do to Republicans, and the country

The current effort to bring up a vote to impeach President Joe Biden probably feels good to some House Republicans – but it is exactly the wrong approach.

A knee-jerk effort to impeach a President of the United States without preparation, hearings, a full understanding of the facts – and the support of the American people – will only hurt Republican efforts to lead our country toward a better future.

For starters, the impeachment will fail. At the most elementary political level, it’s not a great idea to start fights you can’t win. The majority we created in 1994 fell apart 12 years later in part because too many Republicans became willing to fail over niche ideological issues. It cost them their seats and delivered the House to Nancy Pelosi (the first time). 

Second, a messy, clumsy impeachment effort would be exactly the kind of ideological trap into which Democrats and the media want Republicans to fall.