We Owe Posterity

The impeachment of Donald Trump is an act we owe to the past and the future, our Founding Fathers and our grandchildren. The senate will not convict Trump, but I think posterity will see that lack of conviction as a betrayal, as an indictment of the decayed Republican party.

The Democrats took an oath to defend the Constitution, not to defend the Constitution when politically expedient. 

Our ancestors impeached and permanently marked Andrew Johnson when he tried to reverse the outcome of the Civil War. Nixon, a crook, resigned to avoid impeachment. Bill Clinton has been consigned to the shadowy halls of sleaze. This year we need to scratch a line through the name of Trump, a scratch that will last as long as history. 

Some people, shocked that a deranged criminal won our highest office, have attempted to react in a pragmatic way. They try to guess what might happen in 2020. For some reason they fear that the voters will rally to Trump if he's impeached.  But Trump is unpopular. No one new is apt to rally to him.   

Electorates make mistakes. Sometimes a Mussolini gets the most votes. But our Founders gave us a way to correct the errors we make. We elected a criminal President who is intent on saving himself by destroying what we have of democracy. Now we should do the right thing: impeach.