Obviously the Senate isn't going to turn against Trump. But I see two tactical things that are definite victories for Dems lately.
One is that, while Cheeto Hitler is going to again invite Russian help to rat-fuck 2020, at least it's more or less an open secret now. Facebook is still right-wing poison, but at least nobody will be shocked -- shocked! -- that Mark Zuckerberg is a Trump supporter (since it's better for his bottom line). And Twitter will continue to Twitter, too, but I'd like to think the law of diminishing returns will be in effect.
Second, the Dems had to move forward with this. To do otherwise (and remember it took longer for Pelosi to get to this point than a lot of us wanted) would be to surrender. And if there's any lesson to be drawn from the last three years, it's that you fight a bully -- you punch back as hard as possible -- you never show weakness.
I'm still thinking it's 50/50. And it's really not even worth guessing what's next until Iowa and New Hanpshire, other than that Buttigieg is pretty much all of Obama's worst neoliberal impulses with none of the inspirational upside, Biden is too old and creepy, and Sanders will never motivate non-whites in the numbers necessary to get him across the line.
I'm still with Warren, fwiw, and hoping her ground-game will help her surprise us all in two months.
At the very least we'll have a bit of clarity, and that's got to count for something.
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