At this point in the four-year U.S. presidential election cycle, the 2020 election is President Donald Trump's to lose. In parallel, the race to be the Democratic Party's presidential candidate is Sen. Bernie Sanders' to lose.
Meanwhile the trauma inflicted on the country by the ill-advised impeachment drive has injected the poison of partisan, scorched-earth opposition even deeper into the American body politic, when the existing level of divisiveness had already rendered Washington a highly dysfunctional seat of government.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right in her initial judgment a year ago that impeachment was not advisable without compelling reasons backed by overwhelming evidence and bipartisan support. Not one of the three criteria was met.