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1. On Impeachment

Impeachment is fundamentally a political, not a legal, process. Opinion is all that matters, legislative and public. Facts don't matter, except insofar as they can shape opinion.
2. It is hard to see how Democrats can now stop the impeachment train without being completely humiliated. So the die is cast in the House. And Mitch McConnell has already said he is bound by Senate rules to take up the impeachment vote if it reaches the Senate.
3. Of course it will be defeated in the Senate. The question is whether it can pass the House. That will depend purely on public sentiment over the next month. Hence, this is going to be an all-out war on shaping the public opinion, on both sides, facts be damned.
4. Of course, only one side's assertions will be fact-checked, and declared false incessantly, because only those assertions will be fact-checked that can somehow be declared false, accurately or with a sleight of hand.
5. Every media headline will be slanted (when is it not?) to shape public opinion. Every media poll will be designed not to assess public sentiment but to shape it. Journalists will assert, explicitly or implicitly, that they have a higher calling than merely tell the truth.
6. Wear your seat-belts of logic and discernment, and hold on tight to your butts. It will be a bumpy ride.

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