OK, I have some more to say about this.
I have seen some of the typical hand-wringing stuff from liberals and âmoderatesâ about how this was a mistake, sheâs âstooping to his level,â we lost the moral high ground, civility what of civility, etc.Â
All of this is wrong and misses the point.
The worst thing that can happen when you have a corrupt and autocratic ruler who is setting the country on fire and, let us not forget, routinely creating policies and conditions that deliberately produce suffering and death for vulnerable people, is for him and his bullshit to become normalized. If we do not maintain our awareness of how wrong and NOT NORMAL this situation is, then it becomes normal and it becomes a lot harder to change.
Why is Pelosi a more effective leader of the opposition than many of the people actually running for the Democratic presidential nomination? Because she gets this. She is done pretending that he is a president. He doesnât act like one, he doesnât think like one, he doesnât even know what it would mean to be one, and we should not be in the business of pretending that he is one. The consistent message of everything she does that goes viral is: I have compassion for this man as one of Godâs creatures but he is not a president and he should not be in that office.
Is this a kind of scary moment? Yes. Yes it is. Because it performs and acknowledges something terrifying but undeniably true: the relationship between the executive and the legislature is profoundly broken and it cannot be repaired until he is removed from that office. This isnât just saying, as a gesture, âHis speech is already trash in a figurative sense and it will soon be trash in a literal sense.â Itâs also demonstrating the effect that Buttercup has on the country and on the government. He went in there and put on his show and he further ripped up something that was already torn: the Constitution, the checks and balances, the legislature, whatever.
But you know what, we have to be scared by this, because it is scary. Anyone who thinks Buttercup is worried about being caught againâŚI will just say that they are wrong. Itâs going to be more or less open war now. He will go after everyone he can reach with everything heâs got because thatâs what he does.
But we had to do this; and we have to keep doing it. We need to keep alive the knowledge that Schiff quite rightly said is in the hearts even of those people who voted to acquit him: he is unfit for the job and it is dangerous to leave him in it. If we let that feeling die, then itâs over.Â
Also: everyone has probably forgotten this, but early in his administration there were stories about the fact that Buttercup has a habit of tearing up documents after using them. US law says that every document the President creates or signs has to be archived. Buttercup just rips documents up after heâs done with them, forcing the staffers to scurry around collecting the pieces and taping them back together so they can be archived. Why does he do that? Because, obviously, heâs learned that if youâre too dumb to know whatâs incriminating and whatâs notâwhich he obviously isâthe safest course is just to destroy all the evidence. I donât know whether Pelosi was deliberately responding to that or not. But letâs remember in all this whoâs the Shredder In Chief here.
Tear him up, Nancy. Every which way you can.
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