I Didn’t Support Impeachment Until the Democrats Made Me Feel Proud to Be an American

“I guess this is just another lost cause Mr. Paine. All you people don’t know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for and he fought for them once. For the only reason any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain simple rule. Love thy neighbor. And in this world today of great hatred a man who knows that rule has a great trust. You know that rule Mr. Paine and I loved you for it just as my father did. And you know that you fight harder for the lost causes than for any others. Yes you’d even die for them. Like a man we both knew Mr. Paine. You think I’m licked. You all think I’m licked. Well I’m not licked. And I’m gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these. And the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me.”

— Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

I had no faith left after the 2016 election. I had no faith in democrats. No faith in America. No faith in humanity. And no hope for the future.

I was not angry at Donald Trump, nor at the forces that led to his slimmest of Electoral College victories. Trump was the wolf. It was our job to guard the henhouse. We knew what was at stake: the Supreme…