This was an objectively good thing for the Democrats to do, but it is ultimately toothless in the face of institutional failure and GOP obstructionism.
Nothing is going to happen in the Senate. The leader of the Senate already said so on state television. While this is a historical and solemn exercise, it is ultimately purely symbolic. The reason why impeachment has never mattered less is not because Trump is somehow less criminal than Clinton or Johnson , but because our politics is so fundamentally broken by GOP obstructionism that it's not possible forimpeachment to reach the level of severity our founders envisioned for it.
Conservative media has spent the last three decades constructing an impenetrable bubble that places its millions and millions of passionate brainwashees in an alternate universe from the rest of us who try to let objective observations of provable reality dictate our lives. Bipartisanship in this era simply means acquiescing to GOP demands. Plus, the Senate has always been an institution where progress goes to die, especially with Mitch McConnell running things now. Our institutions and those atop it have failed. That is the only way that a President Trump can happen. The amount of political and economic instability experienced by the millennial and Gen Z generations in about two decades is almost unparalleled in history—save for the Greatest Generation who endured a depression and two world wars, the generation around the Civil War, and that around the Revolutionary War. In 1999 we witnessed the second American president to ever get impeached, a year later a Republican Supreme Court decided a presidential election in favor of a Republican, the next year we witnessed the largest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, then we subsequently launched America's longest war in history and not even two years later we entered our generation's Vietnam War in Iraq. Five years later we experienced the largest economic collapse since the Great Depression, then Democrats lost
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