I was starting to write about how Bolton’s continuing revelations have shown just how much of a masterful tactician Pelosi has been from the beginning (including not impeaching based on the Mueller Report), but then it kind of hit me. This republic is over.
I see the strategy around impeaching on a very narrow act, the first article of impeachment. And I see the strategy around impeaching on obstruction of Congress and standing up for Article I of the Constitution, the subject of the second article of impeachment. Pelosi and Schiff did their best to force the US GOP Senators to choose between the U.S. Constitution and Trump. Unfortunately, they are choosing Trump. And the long term damages of this I think are severe. As in, there ‘s no rule of law that hinders the executive branch in any way once Trump is let off the hook here. And that destruction of checks and balances and the rule of law in my mind is the end of this republic. We are either going to be left with 4 more years of dictator Trump doing gods know what, or no Trump but still long lasting and irreparable damage to our country’s system of government.