The Audacity of Desperation
For a generation, Democrats equated boldness with defeat. In launching an impeachment inquiry, Nancy Pelosi signaled a new direction.
Nancy Pelosi’s decision to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump is not just a hinge moment in his presidency, and in the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government. It is a hinge moment in the history of the Democratic Party. The era of Democratic caution—which lasted for at least a quarter century—is over.
In 2006, the journalist Thomas Edsall, after decades of playing poker in Washington, why Republicans generally won. “Republicans,” he
