So what’s to stop any future Congress from repeating this?
That is, the next time there’s a Dem President and Republicans have a House majority, they can use their committees to harass the President, go on endless fishing expeditions with unreasonable & unjustified demands, then when he refuses to go along with the harassment, he’ll be impeached.
Is that really the way Dems want the country to be run?
they are not thinking that far
Remember the P**syhats after the election - they are still (at least in their heads) in that sort of fury
Yes. Whenever a Republican gets elected, that is really the way the Dems want the country to be run.
When a Democrat gets elected, the Dems will insist on "civility" and "compromise" and "bipartisanship" from the Republicans.
I suppose that there will be some practical difficulties with these Democrat rules and they will be set aside rather quickly.
The real rules will be: "Tit-for-Tat". Everybody will get the same treatment from their opponents that they dish out to them.
Everybody is going to hate the real rules. But everybody will follow them.