It Doesn't Matter

Donald Trump has 91 felony indictments against hm, he constantly lashed out at the prosecutors who have charged him, Jack Smith has felt compelled to request a gaga order placed against Trump to avoid a tainted jury in his cases, and in a recent interview (more of which later), Trump claimed full responsibility for the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Thanks to President Biden's troubles, however, none of that matters.

President Biden is dealing with headwinds of his own, and they're more relevant because he's President and Trump is not - yet.  Despite improving economic statistics, inflation is still making essential goods more expensive for Americans, dragging down Biden's poll numbers on his handling of the economy and his overall job approval.  His failure to address his son Hunter's troubles with his business dealings has led to six out of ten Americans believing the consistent Republican narrative that Biden must be in on his son's crooked deeds.  And with Hunter Biden having been charged with an illegal-gun felony - a charge no one named Biden would likely receive from a prosecutor - it reinforces House Republicans' charges of a corrupt family dynamic among the Bidens while House Democrats, relegated to the minority, can only complain about the real corrupt family dynamic among the Trumps, which includes Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.  Of course, being the minority, House Democrats can only looked forward to their complaints get drowned out by renewed calls among the far right for Biden's impeachment.       

Even Kevin McCarthy's call for an impeachment inquiry against the President - forced by his right flank, which has had more control over a Republican House Speaker than anyone since Dennis Hastert - hasn't generated much of a rallying around the President by Democrats, at least not yet.  That's likely because an impeachment inquiry is different than an actual impeachment, and an inquiry is only meant to find evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors.  It doesn't matter if Democrats ask what House Republicans want to impeach Biden for despite no evidence of Biden having done anything wrong.  Because such evidence is exactly what an inquiry is meant to seek!  It wouldn't be an inquiry otherwise, would it?

If an inquiry comes up with nothing, as it's likely to, the House will most likely decide not to impeach Biden; they apparently don't have the votes for it anyway.  But that doesn't matter either; an inquiry is still good enough to tarnish an incumbent President. 

All of his spells trouble for the Biden re-election campaign as it lurches toward 2024.  The best the President can hope for is that Americans start feeling the economic improvements he's accomplished, and soon, because ultimately, Americans vote their pocketbooks, not their reproductive or family-planning rights or their mass-transit access. At least not in presidential elections.  But what about our democracy, our civil rights, or our efforts to live up to our ideals as a nation?

As Stephen Stills once sang, it doesn't matter, it's nothing but dreaming anyhow.