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Originally Posted by ResAlien
This faux outrage and conflict creation will go on for quite a while. We’re all so used to fighting about everything that stupid crap like arguing what “from scratch”means feels normal. Arguing about pointless semantics for the sake of argument is not normal. Hopefully a bit of this wears off before too long because lord is it tiresome.
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The Faux outrage has been going on for a lot longer and have little to do with Trump, the thing that was unique to Trump was using the faux outrage to minimize real outrage. (Have you ever seen a half-black man wear a tan suit after labour day? do you know how uncouth that is?).
I think we all knew it was coming, but I think it will be really easy to underestimate the damage these "articles of impeachment" today will be to American society, it's on a scale similar to Trump and McConnel destruction of American institutions. I think we can pretty much except that every single democratic president will have articles filed against them within the first week going forward. Combined with the history of Trumps presidency it will create a permission structure for Republican presidents to do impeachable things without fear of recourse, as the entire institution of filing articles of impeachment is being demeaned to the point of meaninglessness. Honestly this just makes it more important that Trump is convicted, but I don't know if that will happen.