Impeachment Causing a Blue Christmas? Let’s Get Real
Gloomy predictions about perpetual impeachments and a backlash at the ballot box didn’t prove true after Clinton’s trial.
Not canceled.
Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesKevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, has cast the Democrats as the Grinch, complaining that they impeached the president just “hours before Christmas” (123 hours, to be exact). Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been spending the past few days broadcasting to the world how “sad” she is that impeachment has proved necessary, and narrowcasting to her Democratic colleagues how sad they should take care to look as well. As polarizing as the impeachment of Donald Trump has been, it seems to have brought the parties together in professions of gloom.
Many of the worries that politicians and the press have brought up are, happily, overblown.