PLEASE CALM DOWN! Raskin's move was absolutely perfect. This was a win

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114. the best thing about this site

is the real time information it brings, and of course some very knowledgeable people here.

The worst thing about this site is the constant "Dems were perfect, Dems suck" paradigm where you either have to say everything was perfect, no wrong can be done, or get alerted on, or you have the opposite where people come in and freak out about nothing or very little.

Was it perfect? No. Perfect would be her testifying. Testimony is always more compelling than reading a statement. That's trial 101.
Was it a cave/weak? No. None of this will be remembered by next Wednesday. We will have moved on to other stuff. More than enough evidence has been put forward. It was never going to result in a conviction. The real impact of this was going to be on how many voters saw this and decided, no more Donald Trump?

There's no way to know the answer to that now. We will see in the months and years ahead. I'm hopeful that enough decided that to give Dems some wiggle room for the next 6-8 years. But I'm also enough of a realist to know that it only took two years after the biggest economic collapse in modern times for voters to send the perpetrators right back into control of the Senate. It's a never-ending war against ignorance, and the impeachment of Trump, even a conviction of him, isn't going to be the final battle in that war.

So no, it wasn't "perfect." And no, it wasn't a "cave." It was a compromise to move on to other stuff. There's only so much juice to be squeezed here anyways, and we are probably at the end of that squeeze. Let's get a COVID bill passed, and hopefully, a minimum wage increase too. That alone will speak to why our being in power is better than the alternative.