Organize instead.

Bread, circuses, and hypocrisy.

Turn off the impeachment trial. I’m serious. Stop watching it on CSPAN, stop listening to its coverage on MSNBC, stop reading about it in Politico. Turn it off.

For the last three years, Democrats have built towards this moment. From Comey, to Mueller, to Ukraine, there has been nonstop coverage of Trump’s scandals — but only those that threatened institutions and Liberal ideals.

Trump was not impeached for building concentration camps on the border, nor for an illegal assassination. He was not impeached over indefinite imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, nor for pardoning child-murdering war-criminals. Trump wasn’t impeached for the 150,000+ Americans who have died for lack of medical care during his term. He wasn’t impeached for withholding aid from Puerto Rico. He wasn’t impeached for raping a 13 year old. He wasn’t impeached for supporting genocide in Yemen. He wasn’t impeached for funding apartheid in Israel.

Trump was impeached for violating institutions — for leveraging the US empire to support his re-election.

When this truth is stated, however, liberals often react with scorn. “I don’t care how they remove Trump!” they insist, “I just care that they do!”

Well, and if this surprised you I am truly sorry, this trial will not remove Trump. With a Republican majority, it never had a chance.

In a world where we knew this trial was doomed to fail regardless, the question was not whether it would succeed, but how to use it. Whatever charges were brought would have defined the national conversation for weeks, if not months or years — and so, of course, the Democratic leadership chose Ukraine.