Successful corporate lobbying has hollowed out our political system so effectively, both major parties are just ventriloquist dummies, incapable of using power responsibly

Centrists and self professed moderates have been telling Democrats for decades identity politics will be our ruin, while Republicans embraced them and, well, actually ruined things. You can find news stories every day that illustrate how dangerous the identity vacuum Democrats leave is, from school segregation to state abortion laws. And all Democrats have to do to give voice to the marginalized is to stop letting the centrists silence them.

This week on The Sidetrack with Jason Williams: Republicans know the power of irrational angry mobs, and Democrats are so afraid of that they can’t effectively govern in a crisis. Trump, Kushner, and an impeachment inquiry could break a 30 year cycle of Democrats cowering when Republicans go nuts.

Republicans haven’t had a sane or popular idea for decades. Democrats have. Why hasn’t this lead to a permanent Democratic majority? There’s a lesson there for Democrats on responding to rather than shaping public opinion, and choosing action over out-witting themselves contemplating the status quo, especially right now.

Democrats need to stopping worrying about “electability” (or whatever Chuck Todd and Joe Scarborough think electability is) and chasing the mainstream center. Instead, they should define electability and the mainstream. They need to give their base the go ahead on being about certain policy agendas and stop pretending Republicans will play ball if Democrats are just nice enough.

Democrats need to accept they’ll be forced to make a call on impeachment before the end of this summer. What they choose will matter, not only in 2020 but to the future of America. All of this comes full circle to the dangers of the party’s obsession with broad appeal and bipartisan fantasies.

Impeach the bastard. Seriously. Democrats need to learn how to use the power voters give them, and every argument against it is built on fallacy and fanciful history.