I’ll keep it short. Why did the Democrats bother? Even my cats know the GOP will put their party and power before America. Also remember, blow jobs from your mistress and lying about that is a high crime, not conspiring with the Russians or inciting an armed mob of morons. Alongside wth selling weapons to Iran, lying about Iraq’s nuclear capability and helping Latin American thugs bring cocaine to the US.
The general excuse I do hear is that the Democrats wanted to make sure they wrote the first-draft of History to make sure Orange Foolius is crippled in the future as it eventually did to Andrew Johnson. Yeah, that will work. I grew up hearing a false narrative about Johnson’s impeachment for years (as did millions of other Gen Xers) and JFK wrote about the courageous Republican senator who voted to acquit the asshole. The truth was a lot more complicated and in the end, both sides were self-serving douchenozzles since the GOP was on its way to becoming the party of Bullies and Rich Assholes once the 15th Amendment’s ink had dried.
Let’s also not forget the ongoing whitewashing of Tricky Dick’s legacy. He bailed before it got to impeachment since Goldwater told him which way the Senate was leaning; a time when the GOP still had Center-Right members who followed the law. By the time I was in college, you’d hear young Republicans whining about the railroading Tricky Dick got for doing what FDR or LBJ had already done; no, they didn’t use intelligence agencies to spy or get dirt on the opposing political party.
I need to seriously look into getting refugee status to flee to Europe because this Powered-Wig-based Republic is a sick joke that stopped being funny in 2000.