If we’ve learned anything from the impeachment so far it is that the United States of America is not its armies. It isn’t its grand marble buildings and flags. It isn’t its soil, or even its constitution.
The United States of America is the premise that the people are in charge, and that the people want what is right and abhor what is wrong. It is a simple idea that has illuminated the globe. Even when we were terrible stewards of that idea, we turned to it just as in the cold of winter we turn our faces to the sun.
Now Mitch McConnell will work to overturn that premise. Mitch McConnell wants you to believe that you are powerless. McConell wants you to accept what is wrong out of your feelings of powerlessness. McConnell and Trump want you to buy the lie that the modern world is complex and “right and wrong” is old-timey bullshit.
They want you to think that the power belongs to the pompous and self-important. McConnell’s defense of the President will boil down to this perverted idea of the United States.
I hope we are not to ground down by cynicism to believe it. I hope we all know the truth. And that the truth becomes imbeded on our hearts and our heads. And above all, I hope the truth spurs us to defeat every Republican at every level of government and banish McConnell’s perversions now and forever.
