So President Trump Has Been Impeached. Where Do We Go From Here?
If there has ever been a clear example of an anticlimax, it was tonight’s two votes to impeach President Donald Trump.
Those of us who have been following the various investigations surrounding President Trump have long known that impeachment was inevitable. The need to hold him accountable has been obvious since the release of The Mueller Report, which recorded 10 instances of obstruction of justice. He displayed many indications of criminal conduct long before then.
The two votes on the articles of impeachment were nearly identical to the vote in October to open an impeachment inquiry. Polling on impeachment has remained stagnant for months: a bit less than 50% of America supports impeachment, and a bit more than 45% of America opposes it.
Almost nothing about tonight was unpredictable. And yet, what happens next feels unpredictable.
As a nation, we are in uncharted waters. Never before has a highly legitimate case for impeachment been put forth, only to meet nakedly partisan opposition from the President’s political party. Never before has the United States Senate and (in next year’s election) the American people been asked to consider in their decision making the evidence showing a President’s solicitation of election interference from foreign powers…
