The lockstep congressional Republican defense of President Donald Trump through every stage of the Ukraine inquiry raises troubling questions about whether the impeachment process can still provide an effective check on a President determined to abuse his authority.
The biggest message of the impeachment struggle may be that red and blue America are now so deeply polarized that even the compelling evidence of presidential wrongdoing that has been amassed against Trump cannot cross that divide, either to meaningfully move public opinion or to influence the actions of elected officials. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN