I think it all comes down to the proponents of impeachment NOW! believing, against all evidence in history and the present circumstances, that the House voting for impeachment will magically cleanse and correct the disaster that has been building since 1964.
Well, it won't. First, impeachment even by an overwhelming vote of the House will go nowhere in the Mitch McConnell Senate, believing that any level of growing public support for impeachment of Trump will pressure McConnell, Graham and others to allow Trump's removal to happen in the Senate they control is, as well, ridiculous. The impeachment and removal of an American president has never happened in our history, even though many American presidents have broken the law and committed impeachable offenses.
The impeachment provision of the Constitution does not work to remove criminal presidents who should be removed, it was one of the stupider things they put in the Constitution because they couldn't figure out how to set things up to their liking without risking a president becoming a despot. If there is one thing that is clear from how the U.S. Constitution really has worked is that as long as we retain the presidential system and as people who want to have a fascist presidency as Trump clearly wants to be and as Republican-fascists want him to be observe how to do that more effectively, since we are not going to change that system, what is happening today is our ever worse, ever newer reality.
Second, in fact, Nancy Pelosi who has been the savviest of students of politics longer than even I've been alive knows that making what will likely be a futile gesture resulting in Trump remaining in office, knows that, itself will be worse than, as RMJ put it, the death by a thousand cuts she is inflicting on him. Adam Schiff, no fool, either, pointed out that if Trump were aquittted by the Senate he and Republican-fascists could claim he had been exonerated. Much as I respect the intelligence of some of those making the case that doing nothing is bad, Joy Reid, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, etc. I think they should consider that they have something to learn from what Nancy Pelosi knows about politics, sometimes long experience and observation provides you with what youthful brilliance doesn't.
I think the enthusiasm for impeachment in light of the impossibility of its completion in the removal of Trump and the worse danger of a Trump with a claim of exoneration and a Republican-fascist party able to take that in the election of 2020, is a symptom of the deep level of delusional superstition we have been encouraged to maintain about the document setting out the phony power of impeachment and the slaveowner-gangsters who conceived of it.
As those who read what I post here on a regular basis know, I'm no great admirer of large parts of the U.S. Constitutional system. I think one of the worst things to happen in my lifetime is the extension of a cult of personality whipped up by both the proponents of de facto slavery and American apartheid on the one hand, and the "civil liberties" industry on the other for the group of mostly slave-owning white, rich aristocratic crooks who wrote the Constitution as if they were some secular pantheon of all wise gods.
Along with the huge pile of bull shit that you are required to believe about the goodness and wisdom of that collection of slave holders and financial speculators, those fabled "founders", it is held to be manditory to believe that the Constitution, itself, is some kind of magic formula that will bring every blessing, especially when read with what we are told is a discernable reading of the minds of those gods, the foundation of every bull shit ruse cooked up by law school and law review bull shitters as "originalism" "original intent" etc. Even in the less fundamentalist form of that as found by the allegedly liberal "civil liberties" industry enough of that civic superstition that holds the Constitution in the highest regard retains a dangerous amount of that magical thinking.
If we could manage to get rid of the Electoral College, by amending the Constitution (itself an almost impossible thing because the far from far-sighted founders failure to envision fifty state legislatures) not to mention things like making the Senate democratically representative, having the most democratic part of the government The House of Representatives sign off on court and other appointments, putting a term limit on the Supreme Court (with a lifetime ban on being involved in matters they had even a remote hand in deciding on the court) and a few other vitally important things, like making it clear that the modern mass media has no right to broadcast lies and advocating the denial of equal rights, the Constitution might not be as unsafe as it is. But if you can't impeach a Trump and get the Senate to do their part in removing him, good luck on any of that.
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