House Panel: Trump Engaged in Criminal Conspiracy.

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Trump was exonerated only because the Republican senate majority refused to listen to the evidence, as they were so enamored and terrified of the MAGA vote.

I keep an open mind when it comes to politics.

Pepe-
Keeping an open mind is fine, but one also has to take into account the motives and actions of those under consideration. Following Trump's acquittal, he and the GOP had taken vindictive action against those few Republicans who had voted guilty. Very different from Bill Clinton, who following his own impeachment acquittal, made it clear he was ready to forgive those Republicans who had tried destroying him.

I think you missed my point.
I am skeptical about the decisions made on both sides.
I wasn't born yesterday.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that both sides have to be wrong. One can be right. After all, during the American Civil War, the Republicans were clearly in the right. They're just not now.

Being skeptical doesn't mean I think a decision/judgement is wrong.
It means I still keep an open mind since I don't know the complete situation.

Do you automatically trust what *any* politician says?
If so, I have the Sydney Harbour Bridge to sell you.

No, that's why I'm skeptical of Trump. I know that he's utterly and completely full of fecal matter.

I wouldn't trust what Trump says in a pink tutu fit.
But then I don't trust *any* politician to any degree of depth.

I wouldn't trust Hillary as far as I can spit, either.

I'd trust WikiLeaks, however.

I personally Wikileaks had allowed themselves to be compromised by the Russians years ago. While they had done good initially, I think that whi... that guy with the pale hair and skin was more interested in sowing anarchy and chaos that with looking for justice.

Trump, himself, was not part of the scope of the Mueller investigation.

Trump refused to testify and wouldn't allow anyone around him to testify, either. Clinton cooperated with the investigation, allowed those around her to do the same, answered all the questions, and did so publicly.

Selective memory. Trump answered Muller's questions and Hillary bleached-bit her server.

The Gipper was kind of criminal IMO, and others say fully criminal. Trump lite.

And Nixon lol, but he doesnt fit the trump mould like Reagan and dat Dubya.

bring back Jeb, bring back Jeb!

I was thinking of full, in person testimony, not written answers with no cross examination. Only one of them sat in a chair and faced a committee.

Both had apparently “convenient” losses of data.

Clarence Thomas’ Wife is Linked to Effort to STEAL the 2020 Election

Clinton set the full testimony precedent during his impeachment. What data did Trump bleachbit? The FBI's fabricated FISA, Hillary's monitoring his private emails, did he lose Steele's video of the pee incident in Moscow? In hindsight, since everything was fabricated, did you expect OMB to contribute to the fabrications?

There are many flaws in the US electoral system, but it is clearly not true that it is impossible for a third party to win. Remember Ross Perot? The guy had a very real chance of winning in 1992, he was leading opinion polls until he made a series of bad decisions. Or look to the rise of Emmanuel Macron in France.

Campaign finance reforms are necessary in any case, the amount of money spent on election campaigns in the US is obscene.

I didn’t say voter fraud did play a significant role in the US. I merely said that primary elections do often have to follow state law, and laws around voter registration and eligibility are one such example. Most states will not let parties allow children to vote, for example.

I would suggest the Wikipedia articles are good introductions.

Neoconservatives are culturally conservative. They reject the 60s counterculture movements and LBJ’s Great Society. There is a distinction between liberal hawks and neoconservatives. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

Neoliberalism refers to a bunch of different ideologies. Initially it referred to what Americans now call “liberalism”, as opposed to classic liberalism - the key thinkers were people like Alexander Rustow. In the 80s it became associated with Milton Friedman, who if anything wanted to move back towards classic liberalism (but is often caricatured). Today the only significant people in America calling themselves Neoliberals are associated with the Progressive Policy Institute, which basically synthesises Rustow and Friedman and supports the Centre for New Liberalism: https://www.progressivepolicy.org/about-us/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

All shades of neoliberal also believe in social and political liberalism - it isn’t a purely economic ideology.

Even if we accept your definition of neoliberalism, nobody in the Democratic Party meets that definition and very few people in the Republican Party do.