Panampodcast

In a short period of time, California financial wizard and political activist Tom Steyer has emerged as the single largest donor in American politics. He's made climate change and environmental issues his policy priorities, and has invested heavily in a new generation of left-wing candidates in the Democratic Party, showering Congressional and gubernatorial candidates with money in 2014 and 2016. Now, he has decreed a "litmus test" for candidates he supports: they must aggressively charge ahead with the impeachment of Donald Trump. He cites Russian collusion, Trump's promotion of his own business interests, and Trump's propensity to lead America into war as his reasons. But do these charges meet the criteria of "high crimes and misdemeanors" laid out by the Constitution. Ultimately, as with calls for impeachment of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, Steyer's effort is likely to backfire, while it drives the party further to the left, and out of the mainstream.