I really like the optimism here. Let’s try to keep it going as we turn on the offense. Let’s also note that we have been here before - an attack vanquished and the path clear for us to go forward with our own action. And each time, within about three days, we are somehow on the defensive again in the midst of another surprise media attack.

Usually it is something the Democrats have known about and been plotting for months but our side never seems to know what it is going to be until they launch it. Then because of that confusion, we spend the first couple of weeks of each new scandal just trying to figure out what the real story is and how to respond.

Meanwhile Democrats who knew about it in advance already have the website designed and ready to launch. The T-Shirts and signs are all printed and ready to ship. Meanwhile our side is still like, “What? So there was... ok there was an ambassador and a phone call and ok no wait there was a noose now you say and Trump said - no no no that sounds wrong - no, Biden said that - ok start again, you say this Indian was just drumming and then - and then where does the lady with two front doors come in again?”

The Impeachment failed. Trump won. That means they need a narrative shift.