Why We Won’t Survive Trump’s Impeachment?

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the activation of formal impeachment proceedings against President Trump, there was a strange but very familiar vibration that began to spread across all channels of communication, with leverage of the historical implications, and how the United States of America would endure more cracks in the systemic division that’s wider than ever.

I was mature enough to remember the salacious scandal that caused President Bill Clinton to get impeached in 1998, for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” thanks to details in the Starr Report, courtesy of the Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr, who was essentially the star of a nationwide spectacle, that ended with the acquittal of the embattled Commander-in-Chief in early 1999, after the Senate rejected his conviction.

Back then it was a drastically different climate when it came to seamless access to breaking news and the monitoring of unfolding developments. Social media was in its infancy, and so the only way to keep abreast on the national news cycle was via television and the media outlets that still had the…