Impeachment Trial Ends Because both sides in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump (Part Deux) reflect the decaying, declining state of American civil society, the proceeding came to an end Saturday after the Senate voted to call witnesses, and then remembered that they were due to be out of session next week if there were not a trial, and so reversed itself. No witnesses, onto closing statements, the predictable vote, end of story. Donald Trump once again escapes conviction for impeachable offenses that he did in fact commit, and our political system is again revealed to be groaning under the weight of its cowardice and dysfunction.
Not With a Bang, but a Whimper
Not With a Bang, but a Whimper
Not With a Bang, but a Whimper
Impeachment Trial Ends Because both sides in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump (Part Deux) reflect the decaying, declining state of American civil society, the proceeding came to an end Saturday after the Senate voted to call witnesses, and then remembered that they were due to be out of session next week if there were not a trial, and so reversed itself. No witnesses, onto closing statements, the predictable vote, end of story. Donald Trump once again escapes conviction for impeachable offenses that he did in fact commit, and our political system is again revealed to be groaning under the weight of its cowardice and dysfunction.