Monica Showalter writes for the American Thinker about the impact of presidential impeachment on the political party that pushed for it.
The collapse of the Democrats’ impeachment bid to Get Trump hasn’t exactly been good for Democratic unity.
There were signals and indicators of the fights breaking out all over Twitter, even as Sen. Chuck Schumer made his final teary bawl to the television cameras about the whole thing being a “a grand tragedy” and a “sham trial.”
Fox News host Laura Ingraham compiled a good segment of the tensions and misery — how Adam Schiff tried for one last time to shut his fellow impeachment manager, Rep. Jerry Nadler, up at the finale, and how Schumer himself shushed Sen. Kamala Harris from trying to grab his mic and do the talking instead of him, as well as a fine coda at the end of the miserified faces of the network broadcasters once they learned the Senate voted down witnesses and the impeachment trial would soon be over.
Everyone loves to be a winner. Losers point fingers. Democrats are now in full loser mode, now fighting with each other instead of directing their rage against Republicans, most of all, President Trump. It’s always all about the strong horse, and these guys now seem to realize they’re riding a beaten donkey.
What’s vivid here is how surprised they all seem to be about it. Their bickerings seem to be the fruit of disappointment arising out of failed expectations. Did they really think they could win this? It almost seems as if they did, believing their own bee ess, as President Obama once more graphically put it.
