Opinion: How historic is an event, really, if a month afterward the course of American politics is completely unchanged?
The impending impeachment of President Donald Trump is, as news accounts and blaring newspaper headlines tell us, historic. This is true by definition since a president has been impeached only twice before in 230 years.But everyone knows that this history isn’t going to matter much. In fact, the day after the Senate trial ends in inevitable acquittal, everything goes on exactly the same as before .
It hasn’t generated any momentum in public opinion since the Ukraine story first broke, instead settling into an evenly split stalemate that is characteristic of the partisanship of our era. It is telling that even Democratic presidential candidates aren’t particularly invested in impeachment. They pay it lip service but don’t talk about it much on the campaign trail, even though they are all, to a man and a woman, excoriating about Trump. Impeachment isn’t a top-of-mind issue for the voters they engage with at events, and they all understand that Trump isn’t getting removed from office short of one of them actually defeating him in next year’s election.
On the other hand, House Democrats are giving Trump a legislative achievement that, at the margins, will help him win the very election they want him to be disqualified from.
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