The media are falling all over themselves with excitement! McConnell thinks impeachment may be a good idea! Liz Cheney, one of the most extreme right-wingers in Congress, says she’ll impeach. Woo hoo!
Do I really need to point out the patently obvious?
Republicans aren’t supporting impeachment because Trump incited an insurrection. They’re doing so because the insurrection failed. If that mob had actually succeeded in derailing the Biden certification vote not a single Republican congressperson would dare call for his impeachment.
But let’s be overly generous and give both Mitch and Liz a widdle pat on the head. You’re being such good kids! Now get the hell out of the way.
Fawning over these prodigal sons and daughters by permitting them to hog the limelight right now rehabilitates them and provides them status— and that is dangerous. These are enablers who, until Trump failed, did not do much more than voice the mildest of peeps (if that)
The people we really need to focus on right now are Adam Schiff, Gerald Nadler, Katie Porter, Madeleine Albright, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Eric Swalwell, Alexander Vindman, Fiona Hill, and so many others across the political spectrum who recognized early and consistently that Trump was an existential threat and did something about it.