The Democrats have their programmatic side, but so long as Trump is president, impeachment will be part of the conversation. said that calls for Trump’s impeachment were a distraction from the Democrats' policy agenda. The Manafort revelation alone is, in the words of my colleague James Hohmann, “a huge deal.”The Mueller report, however, is only one source of pressure. But the symbolic politics of this issue are pretty powerful, and will be difficult to resist. If the Mueller report and/or Trump’s overreaching of executive branch powers leads to bipartisan outrage, then Democrats face an easier choice.

Source: Washington Post January 10, 2019 12:56 UTC