Why Trump’s impeachment inquiry will be more divisive than Nixon/Clinton

If impeachment of the president is always a match, today it is dropping into a much larger pool of gasoline than it did under President Richard Nixon or even President Bill Clinton.

After years of steadily rising partisan conflict, the inquiry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced last week may be less likely to produce a consensus about President Donald Trump’s behavior or fitness for office than an ominous awareness in both parties of how wide a trench in priorities and perceptions now separates red and blue America. CONT.

Ronald Brownstein, CNN