Implying any of the entrenched political class actually wanted the guy out as much as the American people generally do. There were a couple crimes of his they could have gotten him on but they also enabled plenty of the authoritarian shit. Pelosi, for example, aided Trump by extending warrant-less domestic surveillance when other better democrats (like Ellison) were introducing bills to try and stop it. I'm convinced that blowback of Pelosi's own involvement with helping Trump violate laws and people's rights being pointed out is the only reason a more comprehensive case wasn't put forward. We need a better speaker candidate that has all of the good ideas socially the democrats represent but who also has enough of a spine to do more than just symbolically standing up to Trump by calling him fat and like... actually stop allowing the persecution that arises from giving unlimited powers to the shadiest parts of the american intelligence apparatus
Just admit you want to call them "The Deep State", but you don't want people to think you're crazy as shit.
This reads like pure conspiracy-mongering. You have no proof about your assertions, any more than the average Trump Supporter rambling on about the Deep State. Pelosi's been incredibly competent in minimizing losses during the Trump years, so I'd be interested in hearing who you'd think might be a "better speaker of the house".
But then, I'm a damn dirty corporate democrat myself, so...I guess I'm just corrupt from a base level.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/democrats-just-handed-trump-more-domestic-surveillance-powers-they-should-ncna836836Keep putting your fingers in your ears and yelling fake news and projecting on levels only MAGApedes and IMAX had reached lol.
She only a couple months ago had to postpone the vote on renewing it when forced to by better congressional leaders
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/fisa-renewal-limbo-284025 (I originally got a hit for this story from the NY Post but replaced it with Politico because the Post is a godawful shitrag that deserves no clicks. I'm so glad I had adblock on when I ended up on that hell website)
And we see this again unfortunately with the PATRIOT extension in November last year that names several generally progressive people who capitulated unfortunately
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/26/progressives-in-congress-just-capitulated-on-the-patriot-act-its-time-to-push-back/Then the lack of coverage for the freshly unemployed that as of yet hasn't been added afaik
https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/laid-off-workers-lost-health-coverage-coronavirus/Not to mention Pelosi rolling over and voting for something literally nicknamed the "Blue Lives Matter" bill
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/blue-lives-matter-bill-police-brutality/http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll188.xml (link to the house voting sheet)
Important to note that more solid progressive leaders like Jayapal,Barbara Lee, and Maxine Waters all voted AGAINST the bill. Not to mention orgs like the NAACP, the ACLU, and Human Rights Watch suggesting to vote no.
Then theres stuff like FOSTA/SESTA which harmed sex workers which she's failed to lead on, while her challenger Shahid Buttar has been vocal about fixing the problems of, as had Elizabeth Warren, who was calling for investigations into those laws
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/17/fosta-sesta-elizabeth-warren-international-day-end-violence-sex-workers-trans-rights/It's not a conspiracy theory at all to state how much she fails in many regards as a leader. Any number of people would make good speakers: Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, literally any of the Squad upon a couple more terms of experience. That's just off the top of my head, as I don't know literally every democrat in the HoR since there's several hundred last I checked.
I'm just a bit frustrated at all of this. To her credit she has staunchly opposed Trump on bombing Yemen and Iran warmongering, but I can't trust her to do the same should a democrat be in the presidency like how she just let Obama bomb Libya into smithereens and left it worse than it was beforehand. I just want somebody who is consistent in standing against abuse of authority rather than "eh maybe sometimes I'll do that if you really force me to" but being otherwise complicit.