Trump's Other Base

In an interview with Bloomberg News yesterday, Donald Trump said that he is considering adjusting capital gains taxes for inflation. As CNBC described, the proposal "would be an estimated $100 billion tax cut that would benefit largely those who own assets such as stocks and real estate." What makes this proposal so appalling is the fact that it was made the same day that Trump announced pay freezes for civilian federal workers. The cancellation of the planned 2.1% pay increase is necessary because "We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases," Trump said. This insult, occurring four days before Labor Day, would, by itself, be grounds for impeachment in any rationally working political system. We, however, are dealing with a system under which one of the least popular and least skilled presidents in the country's history is guarded by his auxiliary base: the Democratic Party. Nancy Pelosi said "Impeachment is, to me, divisive," Pelosi isn’t the only one. Harry Reid said “The less we talk about impeachment, the better off we are.” Maybe Harry Reid will be better off, but not the working class. Some people have said that we need to wait for a Democratic majority in Congress before talking about impeachment, but Pelosi said "Again, if the facts are there, if the facts are there, then this would have to be bipartisan to go forward. But if it is viewed as partisan, it will divide the country, and I just don't think that's what we should do." So Democrats won’t start demanding impeachment until Republicans support it? I’m not clear on why we need more than one party if that is the way things are done.