Trump’s SECOND impeachment.

This one being the most bipartisan in American history.

10 Republicans found some courage yesterday, a shockingly lacking number, but nonetheless, that makes this the most bipartisan impeachment vote in Presidential history. Bravo.

Impeachment looks far more likely to succeed in the Senate than it did, and there’s a real chance of Mitch McConnell and his flock ensuring (for self preservation based reasons) Trump is barred from holding office ever again. Those 17 Republicans in the Senate still seem elusive, but more likely than they ever did before.

The public isn’t overwhelmingly behind this effort, but a clear majority is (more so than during the first impeachment), and Trump’s approval ratings, while above water, are hitting new lows in the mid 30s.

The end result of this chaos is Donald Trump will never be President again, and Mike Pence will never ascend to the Oval Office. Pence has lost Trump’s support meaning this four year grift to inherit the MAGA crown has been for literally nothing, and Trump has lost that 46–48% vote share he’d need, on lower turnout, to win a national election.

Republicans have huge support, and will be very noisy, but this fiasco has lost them the dwindling remains of traditional Republican support, meaning they’ll be a force, but not a Presidency winning force. The very same electoral collage Republicans have relied on may now come back to bite them in the arse, and rightfully so.

Biden is right to stay above the fray in this case. For once, that needs to be done. Let congress do the dirty work, focus on your agenda, and attempt to unify the saner 65% or so of the country around bold, common sense, progressive policymaking. What aspects of the progressive agenda will people disagree with? Now is the time to go bolding than Obama ever did, because 2009–2017 shows us it all falls apart if you don't work to disrupt the status quo and establish a new political hegemony, as Reagan so brilliantly did for neoliberalism.