Memo from NYC

After last night's historic impeachment vote of Donald Trump -- his greatest presidential achievement and the only thing he's ever really earned on his own -- many pundits are wondering about the political ramifications of it. Specifically, there seems to be a consensus, based on absolutely no evidence, that this will "backfire" on the Democrats and that Republicans will benefit in their efforts to keep him in office.

Yeah, sure, okay.

Obviously it's impossible to predict how impeachment will play politically leading up to next year's presidential election but, so far, the evidence is not side of this idiotic consensus. Last month there was elections for Governor in Kentucky and Louisiana, deeply Republican states, and the Democrats won. In Virginia, the Democrats won control of the statehouse for first time in thirty years. Democrats also swept local elections in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Missouri, all states Trump won in 2916, many of them for offices that Republicans had held for years and years. So, thus far, the evidence is that not only is Trump 100% guilty of impeachable offenses but also that he is hurting his Republican party badly at the ballot box.

But pundits don't let reality get in the way of a good "narrative", of a popular meme.

Here in New York, there are a few closely-watched congressional races that the pundits think might be affected by impeachment. What's so interesting about observations like this one, is the utter moral bankruptcy. There's no belief that doing the right thing, the noble thing, the courageous thing is good -- it's all about political positioning, etc. 

And this is the greater evil that faces our country right now -- not just a bad, corrupt man in the Oval Office but a media and political class that has no decency, no sense of right and wrong, no sense of the great American experiment's Constitutional moral imperatives, just "Who's gonna win?" This corruption in the American power structure goes beyond this president or the next election and it won't end with the impeachment trial or the next election.

It will only end until we the people make the media and the political class pay with their jobs, their money, and their power. We have the power. Let's use it!