POS John Zeigler, saying something I agree with for the first time. Jesus Christ.

A Great Country Would Have Already Impeached Trump, But Maybe We Should Just Admit We No Longer Qualify

…The answer to the question of what to do about all this is not nearly as obvious as the evidence against Trump. My primary desire for Trump to at least be impeached, even if it was always obvious that, barring an economic collapse, the Republican Senate would never remove him, has been from the viewpoint of history and our future.

If Trump is not at least impeached for his already proven conduct (and to be clear, there are a lot of acts which may have happened, including in the realm of “collusion” with Russia, that have not been sufficiently proven), then how could a future president, perhaps one even more overtly dangerous than Trump, ever possibly be removed? The many horrific precedents being set here would include creating an absurd new rule that, unless the president’s own party widely agrees to remove them, that impeachment is effectively totally off the table.

However, as a practical matter, it is now possible that impeaching Trump may lead to an even greater “victory” for the president than I had previously thought. This calculus has changed because it is now very clear that the forces assembled to go into this battle are not prepared to do so in a way that at least results in an honorable defeat. (The best proof of this is that the process hasn’t even started yet. If Trump is really such a great risk to the republic, then why is there no haste?!)

Central to this reality is that Robert Mueller, an honorable but antiquated public servant who is ill-suited for these bizarre times, is clearly not willing to do what would be necessary for impeachment to be publicly viable among a populace which is lazy and ignorant. His supposedly dramatic statement Wednesday was far too nuanced and reserved to impact real voters, and was easily dismissed by the state-run “conservative” media as meaningless.