Impeachment IV

 

I Don't Want You Around Me Anymore

If you were half as smart as you think you are
The world would be a-standing at your door

But I, I won't be there cause I no longer care and

I don't want you around me anymore.

 

Are the Republican Senators at the impeachment trial being smart?

If the Republican Senators were smart they would vote to convict in the Second Impeachment trial of Donald Trump.  And since the mandatory sentence of removal from office is moot, they then could vote against the disqualification from future office.  Doing so would allow them to claim that they have a moral code, but also because they hope that his behavior would never be repeated, they are merciful. But this would anger the Trump supporters who want complete and total vindication, and at least 17 Republican Senators are unlikely to be smart.

The Trump supporters, like Donald Trump himself, do not value the future.  They favor victory now at all costs.  This is known as a Pyrrhic victory, that is a tactical victory but a strategic loss.    AKA winning the battle, but losing the war.  The causes of those who lost in these Pyrrhic victories are often won. We accept evolution and remember Clarence Darrow, but Darrow lost the Scopes Monkey Trial.  We know Galileo Galilei and that the  moons of Jupiter still move, but he lost his inquisition trial where the words “and yet it moves” are remembered.  Donald Trump may have be impeached at his trial, but Rep. Raskin and all of the House managers  have helped ensure that we will never forget and that we can hope that we will never allow the behavior of another President to be like Donald Trump.