The difference being the Clinton email scandal was real, involving an epic misuse of a private email server to circulate classified information.
Now is not the time for Jeffries or any other Democrats, especially Senate Democrats, to go weak in the knees over shutdown politics.
Week by week and step by step, Trump is creating his own list of "subversives"--organizations, individual people, even entire American cities.
Senate Democrats must internalize the reality of the existential threat Trump represents to the survival of the constitutional Republic and then act accordingly.
Not since the Federalists controlled the White House and Congress at the end of the 18th century have we seen this kind of systematized, lock-step domestic political repression perpetrated in unison by the political branches of our government.