Assholery, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Somebody, sometime.

Pretty much from the start, I’ve felt that the Democratic obsession with the Trump Russian Collusion was a mistake, the Democrat’s great white whale. It seemed to me to be just like the Republican’s obsession over Clinton’s blowjob. I just don’t see where the crime is. By crime, I mean a real, provable crime, like a tape saying “I’ll give you the nuclear codes if you help me win the election”, not some phony charge of Collusion to commit a crime that didn’t end up happening. My thinking was that anything less would seem like the Democrats were just hounding the President and would leave the country in disarray and might even help Trump.

My first reaction to the Mueller Report is that I was right (isn’t that always our first reaction). There was no smoking gun and it would be politically detrimental to the Democrats to Impeach Trump not just because it would go nowhere in the Senate but, also, because it will be hard to prove any real crime to a Trump backer and it would only result in more public discord. Then Elizabeth Warren said she read the report and he should be impeached and I am questioning my assumptions.

Listening to Warren, I realize I have been thinking politically which, ironically, is exactly what I have been so critical of Democrats for. My criticism is that they are using Focus Groups to make policy, rather than voting in alignment with what they say are their beliefs and ideals. At best, they are voting for what the Focus Group told them somebody else would like. However, in reality, they don’t know what that mythical other would like because the problem with Focus Groups is that they tend to validify the focus group organizer’s thesis and that results in a distorted, second-hand opinion in a time when people are hungry for authenticity. If Trump is really breaking a law or a bunch of laws, the authentic position, the honest position, the moral position, the good American position, is to try to impeachment him even if the Senate doesn’t convict. The argument I keep hearing against impeachment is that the Republican Senate will not convict anyway so why try, but the Senate is not who needs to be convinced, the American People are who need to be convinced and, if there is real evidence of criminal behavior, Impeachment will do the convincing.

What I like about Warren is that she has read the report and thinks it shows criminal behavior so, go for impeachment. What worries me is that the position that Speaker Pelosi is taking is the worst thing to do. She seems to be saying that the President has committed real crimes but he shouldn’t be impeached because “He’s Just Not Worth It”. But, Impeachment shouldn’t be about Trump, it should be about the Country and, if he has committed real crimes, isn’t the Country worth it? On the other hand, if the President of the United States is just a nasty, mean, vindictive, asshole that we are embarrassed about but is not doing anything illegal as President, the Democrats should drop it and move on.