All this sturm und drang will pass and be one meaningless. Few people care who was manipulating or browbeating back when Andrew Johnson was impeached. And the jackals who swarmed Bill Clinton and impeached him because he lied about a blowjob from a consenting adult will all be long forgotten. Their names are named elsewhere here but nobody’s gonna remember. Especially as those of us old enough to have watched it happen die out.
But that impeachment vote (if it goes in the House the way we all expect it to) will stick. It goes straight into the history books. On the record. Cast in stone. That will always be front row center on his so-called. legacy and in his eventual obituary. You can talk all around it and “over, under, around, and through” like TV commercials used to say. You can spin it any way, excuse it any way, downplay it in any way, but that doesn’t change OR erase OR amend the fact that he’ll have been IMPEACHED. And failure to convict in the Senate does NOT wipe it away or or reverse it or nullify it or make it any less legitimate or any less of a blot on the ol’ bio. Just ask Bill Clinton.
Straight into the history books! Where it belongs! So his grandchildren and the kids and grandkids of all his rich friends and non-wealthy supporters will read about it in school and have to study it in history class. Same when there are movies and miniseries about it, too, and books galore. Just ask Richard Nixon.
And, for that matter, ask the ghost of Andrew Johnson. For probably most of America, by now, that’s the only thing people know about him.
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