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By narrowing the focus of the articles of impeachment being prepared for submission, the House is all but ensuring their defeat in the Senate.

What Schiff and others don’t apparently understand is that what they consider to be prima face evidence does not seem to be selling well, at least so far, in the court of public opinion. If the goal of Schiff & Co. in pursuing a speedy impeachment is, as they say it is, to limit the ongoing damage to the Constitution and the rule of law being perpetrated by the president, they should realize that articles of impeachment that fail to become sustained in the Senate would have no effect in mitigating the president’s behavior and, more likely, would serve to exacerbate it.

Currently, the Democrats are losing in the court of public opinion. Besides bringing forth articles of impeachment, the Democratic Party should also be conducting a simultaneous publicity campaign aimed at helping the public understand why the impeachment should be sustained. Between Fox Propaganda and Sinclair Broadcasting, there are an awful lot of folks laboring under arguably false notions about their president and the reasons behind his current circumstances. The Dems have a chance to change this, through campaigns appealing, like the Repuglicans, to emotions more than facts, but the window of opportunity in which to do it is closing fast.

Tim Konrad