You may be right. I'm just thinking that there are better ways to have gone about it than the one they chose if they were thinking strategically.
Right... but that's what gives me the jitters. Criteria formed guardrails leading to this event. At any point, a backstop could have been utilized, a device constructed, but none were even attempted. NO avoidance. Either insanity or direct intention purposed this end... In which, in the case of intention, this cannot be the end intended, and there is an option to exercise... Another shoe to drop, as it were.
For example, what if they'd just censored him, and said "we're going to let the American people render the verdict on his presidency in November." At least that would have kneecapped the argument that they're trying to subvert democracy. It would show that they respect democracy. They'd have looked more responsible, and more mature. And that's probably why some Democrats were floating that idea before impeachment began.
Good thinking, but it is also limited to low fruit with limited reward. They had to predict how they would look (the players, not the pols). It looks to me like they have forgone the lesser options to construct a Sword of Damocles scenario - Or at least, that is why I would suffer this apparent and predictable end with intention. In my mind, they HAD to see this coming (again, the players, not the pols). Why continue to this end when this end is so very predictable? Echo chamber? Maybe, but unlikely to me that their strategists were so blinded.
But the hard-left couldn't be restrained, so Pelosi ended up giving in to this process that has hurt them in the polls already, and is just doing to hand McConnell a free win. It was easily avoided...but she just couldn't. So instead, they get this half-assed impeachment and look impotent.
Maybe there's a strategy somewhere in there...but I doubt it.
Maybe you're right - It certainly happened to the Republicans over Clinton, with exactly this same result. So it is already proven to be capable of being that clueless. But usually folks would learn from such a blunder.