Sorry Pelosi, I’m Celebrating Today

For many of us, the Trump impeachment is personal.

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Donald Trump just got impeached. Impeached. I want to write it out twenty times, just to make sure it really happened.

It did.

Even though I’ve been following every moment of the hearings with bated breath, struggling to tune out the endless coverage and the mounting stress, it didn’t really hit me until today. He’s the third president to ever be impeached. It’s a big deal.

Sure, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to brag about how he’s working with the Trump administration, proving that there will be no fair trial of the President’s crimes in the Senate. Sure, Trump won’t be removed and this might help him win reelection.

But the majority of the House (the much more representative part of Congress) held up their constitutional mandate to punish the Executive Branch for crime.

And Donald Trump is a criminal. He has been a narcissistic, bigoted, pathological liar for years. But the criminal part is actually new.

Interviewing with Stephen Colbert a few weeks ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi highlighted that this is important. She hates Trump’s policies as much as many of us do. She has struggled to pass bills through the House that Senator…