Would Republican senators ever vote to convict Trump? Here’s what we can learn from the rest of the world.

… In parliamentary systems, the legislative majority party selects the government leader. Those parties can “fire” their own prime minister if he or she grows unpopular. …

This is why a president’s party so infrequently supports impeachment: Doing so tends to hurt the party more than it helps. Only in dire circumstances are a president’s co-partisans likely to jump ship, hoping that blaming the president for the country’s ills will spare them from voters’ wrath. In Venezuela in 1992, the country’s economy was nearing collapse before the president’s party abandoned him. In South Korea in 2016, millions had been protesting for months, and presidential approval had plummeted to 5 percent, before members of the president’s party voted to impeach. CONT.