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There's a point at which seriously analyzing something silly condones it. You don't ask a child who's put two French fries up his nose, "What are your opinions on the strength of the Japanese yen?" You turn away. That's what you do: you don't coddle it by implying it has gravity.

The *facts* of the Ukraine scandal aren't seriously contested. The *legal precedent* relevant to the Ukraine scandal isn't seriously contested. *Nothing* in the Ukraine scandal is seriously contested. It's just that Trump thinks he *has the votes to win* and that's the end of it.

UPSHOT: It's reasonable to say, if asked, "This is the strongest case for a president's impeachment ever presented, and reveals the worst conduct a president has ever been impeached for. And there's no 'other side' to it. Also, he's reoffending now and will continue to reoffend."

You might add: "There's no drama in the impeachment case but this: will Democrats win the fight to expose more than the readily impeachable 2% of Trump's crimes they're exposing? Will Trump's endless criming haunt him through a major new revelation before the end of the 'trial'?"

And: "With a repeat offender whose crimes are so numerous, vile, and incapable of deterrence he's even recommitting the same crime during his trial for that crime, all you can do is punish and punish and punish and punish and never stop punishing—meaning, keep bringing articles."

Trump's impeachment is like the first sexual assault trial of a man charged with 143 sexual assaults in 18 jurisdictions. An effective, responsible prosecutorial strategy isn't, "Well shucks, let's see if he's a bad guy!" It's "how do we set a global strategy to protect victims?"

A reasonable prosecutorial strategy in handling a career criminal like Trump would be: (1) Hold public House hearings every day; (2) bring at least one new article of impeachment per month; (3) go on TV daily to warn America that Trump is an ongoing threat to national security.

My point: this impeachment shouldn't be some sort of "main event"—it's a necessarily political airing of 2% of Trump's crimes, even as federal investigations are ongoing *across the country* to try to uncover, collate, and bring to light the other 98%. That's what happening here.