Trump:
Impeachment will
be 'a positive for me in
the election'
be 'a positive for me in
the election'
(The Hill)
And it may be. This is a different country than the one Speaker Pelosi spoke of the Founding Fathers creating. If the Original America is recoverable however, the one of laws not men, then this is necessary now. Waiting until the elections of November 2020 has been and would be legitimizing the Catastrophe, the gray coup d'etat of November 2016. Waiting would be accepting the election of 2016 result, banking on the Leader of America 2.0 not stealing it again in 2020. And after the Ukraine extortion, after the admissions, no rational person would deposit her life's savings, and her children's and her grandchildren's, in that bankrupt bank.
Of far greater importance is the courage of the attempt. "He's not worth it," Speaker Pelosi had said previously, a curious locution for it was never Donald Trump's debased worth that was at stake, it was the worth of the former United States of America. The United States of America was not worth making the attempt to recover from Trump's gray coup is the real meaning of Speaker Pelosi's odd statement.
The Speaker thanked by name the six committee chairs who will head the impeachment inquiry. She thanked "all the members" for their thoughtful counsel. She did not thank by name the one and only member who was the unquestioned spur to her announcement this evening, the last best hope, the beautiful mind of young, heroic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
