Trump's manic impeachment dance with the GOP

It's a push-pull relationship

President Trump.
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Does President Trump have an impeachment death wish? Is the Republican Party a political suicide pact? Those are just two of the questions that jump out over the last few days as the White House tries to face down — and shut out — the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry.

The latest Trump adventure to risk a rift between the president and the congressional Republicans he will need to defend him came, predictably enough, in a tweet. Trump compared the impeachment process to a lynching, forcing Republicans to either defend or distance themselves from him. "This is a lynching in every sense," insisted Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.). "To equate his plight to lynching is grotesque," countered former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.