Cranes battling each other in the sky, Samson and Goliath-sized shovels mauling each other’s words, an image that keeps floating in my head like an inflated ball at a football stadium. After two days of impeachment hearings, layered on four years of Donald Trump’s tweets and updates about his sickening posterboard family (God help Barron wherever he may be hiding), the murder of George Floyd on national television, a pandemic that has killed millions across the world, highlighting in yellow marker the vast discrepancies between those who have access to care and those who do not. Shall I count the ways we live in historic times? And then there’s maraschino cherry on top of that—the ransacking of the Capitol on January 6, a day saved on tape forever, followed by the second impeachment hearing of Donald John Trump (never before has a president won such an honor, forgive my sarcasm).
Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland’s 8th district, Democratic impeachment manager and a constitutional law scholar lectured behind the podium on patriotism, the constitution, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, a pamphlet that galvanized the colonies into action against the British, visibly impassioned by his subject matter, standing in a sacred place of honor, and holding fast to those tenets on which this country was based. I am moved, shaken, but at the same time, understand that this is not what motivates mostly seventeen Senators, many of whom have already subscribed to the Big Lie with an automatic reup for the next four years, to look inside, consider, please find a conscience.
Don’t know what to say
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