Slowly Slowly

All the "progress" being made by the Dems to bring this rogue POTUS to heel becomes so much sound and fury signifying nothing unless we all keep pushing.

And sometimes it amazes me how hard we have to push just to get people to see their way clear to do what's right, when it really should be obvious that an awful lot is wrong, and that something has to be done.

WaPo:

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.

Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.

Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.

And there it is - the basic crux of our problems - politicians who won't follow their conscience unless it aligns with their political ambitions.

Politicians who have to borrow the courage to stand up for what's right - and stand against what's wrong - when it's perfectly clear the leader of their party is breaking the fucking law practically every fucking day.

And I'm getting pretty tired of hearing myself talk about about, but how do I not? How do I shrug it off? How do I ignore the nagging thought that the Repubs aren't doing what's clearly their duty unless what's happening is something they want to have happen?

I'll keep on indulging myself in this little exercise in Argument From Ignorance until someone points to something else that makes sense to me:

The Republican Party is a front - a mask - a beard - it's providing cover for a concerted effort to tear down our little experiment in self-government in order to replace it with plutocracy.