There's a deep desire to believe that Obama was the last "all right" moment not because there's any evidence for it but to avoid liberal despair.
Some of us are old enough to remember when the "old normal" was called "the End of History".
The passing of the "old normal" is why impeachment, so irresistible, is nevertheless so destabilizing. Even if it succeeds it cannot restore the old order. Rather it makes a headlong plunge into terra incognita an inevitability.
The one parallel commentators miss in commemorating the Fall of the Berlin Wall is its remarkable coincidence with the collapse of the statist project in the West. It is an event equal or greater than the collapse of the Soviet Union.
We are watching, as it were, the collapse of another Wall, another set of 5 year plans, another nomenklatura.
You may ask: is it good or bad? We won't know for another 50 years. All we know is that it is.
