Twitter is so painful to read right now. People want the merits of the impeachment case to matter so badly. They want the anguish & eloquence of those whose lives were threatened to matter. They want TRUTH to matter & decency to finally win a round. But it's not going to happen.
It didn't ultimately matter when they stole the 2000 election, or crammed a bunch of authoritarian policy through in response to a terrorist attack they failed to prevent, or went to war with the wrong country at a cost of billions of dollars & millions of lives ...
... or wandered haplessly into a global economic meltdown (hastened by their deregulation), or supported racist conspiracy theories about the first black president, or degraded norms to obstruct everything that president tried to do, or elected an incompetent narcissist ...
... or worked systematically to suppress the minority vote, or put asylum-seeing children into border gulags, or failed utterly to prepare for or respond to a pandemic that's killed more Americans than WWII, or turned the federal civil service over to corporate lobbyists ...
... so why would it matter when they finally cross over to armed insurrection? The last 4 decades have been about escalating conservative lawlessness & zero accountability. This is America's default. No amount of persuasion will stop it now.
Merit doesn't matter. Simple human decency doesn't matter. Only power matters. Either Democrats pass substantial democracy reform in the next two years or we're very likely to pass a point of no return into authoritarian single-party rule. </fin>
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