Impeachment for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
“The White House in Crisis” blares the afternoon banner on CNN. The visiting Finnish president is treated to a trademark Donald Trump tirade against the press. A mysterious manila envelope is delivered to Capitol Hill, and the United States’ former special envoy to Ukraine testifies behind closed doors.
The House impeachment inquiry is barely 10 days old, and every news cycle is already awash in a flood of Ukraine-a-mania. For anyone who lived through Bill Clinton’s impeachment two decades ago, it’s an acid flashback, albeit one that now not only plays out in ink and airtime and over the internet, but is instantly magnified and refracted through the blinding prism of the spinning social-media whirl.
There’s no point in protesting. For the foreseeable future, we’re in for all impeachment, all the time.
