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Impeachment: A Briar Patch With No Rabbits
It is very hard to see any positives for the country, for congress, for the president, or for either party coming out of this impeachment
It is amazing watching folks who are ostensibly our betters do things that to us rabble are clearly unwise, and yet they seem oblivious to how political gravity works. Our political leaders are never as clever as they think they are. They think themselves brilliant for trying to time things, to game things out, to maximize their own plans to their own benefits. Thing is, it almost never works out.
Writing at CNN, National Political Reporter Maeve Reston states the obvious:
After four exhausting years of Trump that left this country deeply divided and democracy hanging by a thread, the nation breathed easier when Trump decamped Wednesday to Mar-a-Lago, his slashing vitriol silenced by a permanent suspension on Twitter. Next month’s trial will bring the outcast former President back to center stage, giving him yet another chance to claim that he is a victim in a never-ending partisan witch hunt and handing him a platform to rally his supporters at a time when he might have had otherwise had none.
Biden is caught in an almost impossible vise as the nation reengages in the…
