Welcome to trumpistan.

Have you been watching the senate impeachment trial going on in Washington? The mismatch between the two sides when it comes to their legal advocates have been frightening. The republican legal team just keeps flooding the process with lies and lousy legal arguments. The democrats, on the other hand, have been on their game. If this was an actual game the referees would have invoked the mercy rule by now. Adam Schiff deserves a special place in history for his work on the senate floor in laying out the legal arguments to remove Mr. trump from office.

Of course all of this will not matter, because the trump cult members republicans in Washington have already decided that they will protect a corrupt and out of control president no matter what. Some of them will pretend to deliberate (I see you Susan Collins and Mitt Romney), and others, to their everlasting shame, will not even pretend to have an open mind. Holding on to power and getting reelected is far more important than honoring the oath they took to be impartial, and to respect the Constitution of the United States. To them, loyalty to trump is more important than loyalty to their country. Some of them, in violation of senate rules, are even walking out of the senate chambers while the democrats are making their arguments.

If Americans could turn away from The Bachelor and Dancing With The Stars long enough to watch the impeachment trial they might actually learn something about what the president did to get us to this point. The democrat House impeachment team has laid it out with sound factual arguments and demonstrative evidence.

The outcome of this particular trial is a fait accompli, and you could argue that we won't know the result of what is happening until November, which is when the American people will decide if we want to continue under this current regime.

Adam Schiff said the following: .

"When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’”

Those words were written by Alexander Hamilton in a letter to President George Washington, at the height of the Panic of 1792, a financial credit crisis that shook our young nation. Hamilton was responding to sentiments relayed to Washington as he traveled the country, that America, in the face of that crisis, might descend from “a republican form of Government,” plunging instead into “that of a monarchy.”

The Framers of our Constitution worried then—as we worry today—that a leader could come to power not to carry out the will of the people that he was elected to represent, but to pursue his own interests. They feared that a president could subvert our democracy by abusing the awesome power of his office for his own personal or political gain.

And so they devised a remedy as powerful as the evil it was meant to combat: Impeachment.

As the centuries have passed, our Founders have achieved an almost mythic character. We are aware of their flaws, certainly, some very painful and pronounced indeed. And yet, when it came to the drafting of a new system of government, never seen before and with no guarantee it could succeed, we cannot help but be in awe of their genius, their prescience, even, vindicated time and time again."

Not quite Mr. Schiff, because in trumpistan, none of that matters. 

*Pic from time.com