A lot of people are understandably upset that the House calendar still, as I checked right before I typed this doesn't show the House of Representatives in session again until the 21st, we want them to vote impeachment right now and we need them to right now. But if there's one thing anyone with the maturity of a mature 16 year old should have learned by now, Nancy Pelosi is a master of the possible, a strategist of realism, a tactician of the doable, the person who no one should ever figure they can second-guess from a distance. I think she will recall the House as soon as she knows that a. it will do what is needed, b. that her plans will be the least useful to the fascists she has held at bay for her entire time as Democratic leader in the House, having re-won it twice, something that is enormously impressive if not unprecedented in the modern period.
What she, her leadership team, the Democratic caucus does is certainly based in what is possible, what is doable and what will be most advantageous to democracy and least useful to the Republican-fascists and the Trump crime family.
Any choice that may have been entertained that it might be best to just let the Trump regime fade into the past was removed from the realm of the possible by his inciting an insurrection on the government of the United States while holding the presidency. If he is not held responsible, whichever entity with the power to hold him responsible which shirks that, whether the Congress, the incoming administration, the once-again independent from politics DoJ or the Supreme Court will have transformed the Trump insurrection into the Julius Cesar Republic destroying moment QAnon and the Proud Boys proclaimed it to be.
If Trump is not held criminally responsible for what he has done American Democracy is already dead, the exercise of the past two months merely the death rattle of it. That is especially true if the Supreme Court holds he can pardon his way out of answering for his crimes. Imagine Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz knowing they're safe to pardon their way out of their criminal administrations, or, frankly, any likely Republican-fascist of the future.
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