Abby McCloskey, Dallas Morning News, December 16, 2019

“We are a nation divided. President Donald Trump is likely to be impeached by the House before Christmas on a party-line vote. The Senate is likely to exonerate him on a close to party-line vote in early 2020. Thus the impeachment proceedings can best be thought of as road signs for the road we are already on, instead of a change in direction.

In fact, it’s hard to imagine what would change the country’s direction. Polarization in America began its epic climb up long before Trump ever rode his golden escalator down. The distrust, the energized factions, the exhausted middle, it is all much deeper, embedded in racial division, and changing culture, and loneliness, and social media, and so many other thorny factors that political scientists have struggled to unravel.”