Eleven House Democrats—all awash in money from AIPAC—missed a vote to begin impeachment proceedings against Pete Hegseth, effectively ending the effort.

It’s just one of those things where the electorate will be enraged, the elected will offer some excuse about bureaucracy or procedure or timing, and the fascist machine will continue because liberals would rather see capitalism remain uninterrupted than fascism inconvenienced.

I knew better than to expect anything of anyone in national government, and it seems the years of disappointment to come have officially begun.