When I wake up in an optimistic mood, despite yesterday's frustrating Senate outcome, I think that with each such exercise Trump is revealed more clearly, is pushed further into our past. We've had many Trump-free days since 1/20 & they are all better than the alternative.

No doubt he remains as do the malevolent fools who still do his bidding in the Senate, the House and elsewhere. But they have failed repeatedly politically, are ever-more tarnished, and are certain to be more so as the crimes of the past few years are revealed & prosecuted.

The mob remains, the threat remains and we must not be complacent about defeating it and every last vestige of it until it is gone. But with with the House Dem's victory in 2018, with Joe Biden & Kamala Harris' victory in Nov, with the small but growing GOP rejection of Trump...

...with the revelations, with the abomination of 1/6, with the members of the last adm coming forward, with the increasingly desperate, corrupt behavior of Trump (a president who could only find a hack, two-bit Philly personal injury lawyer to defend him before the Senate)..

...we feel pages turning. Biden's calm, methodical, principled, compassionate focus on doing the people's business, the successes he is already racking up, the embrace of world leaders happily done with the Trump era, contribute to this feeling.

Trumpism remains and is a threat. But Trump is increasingly in our rear view mirror. That is a positive step and on this particular Sunday morning, I am going to savor it...with special thanks to the exceptional work of the House impeachment managers for helping to make it so.