America Is Truly Lost
The Senate vote on the constitutionality of Trump’s second impeachment seals the deal on America’s chances: they’re grim.
In a 55–45 vote held today, the Senate decided that Trump’s second impeachment was constitutional and would proceed. After a pyrrhic victory for the Democratic majority, Rand Paul could boast that the impeachment trial was “dead on arrival.”
Never forget this day, January 26th 2021, the day when 45 GOP Senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, openly acknowledged that American justice does not apply to rich, powerful, white men. The House has impeached Trump on one count of inciting an act of insurrection. In a regular, decent timeline, these words would have spelt the administration's immediate demise, a presidential resignation in dishonour, and severe judicial retribution.
But we don’t live in a typical timeline. Since 2016, we’ve branched out into a new version of the simulation where truth isn’t shared, values don’t matter, expertise not respected, and justice not served. We’re now trudging through a narrative that takes as much from Idiocracy as it does from 28 Days Later. A virus has infected millions and makes them angry, bitter, and revengeful: The Trump virus. It’s not a derisive term for Covid.
