The elite media sees impeachment as a problem — for Democrats

The Very Serious People in Washington — the same people who supported the war in Iraq, always consider deficit-reduction a top priority, thought Hillary Clinton was entitled to the presidency, hold no grudge against torturers, and believe Democrats and Republican have become equally extreme — long ago concluded that any talk of impeaching Donald Trump was ridiculous, flaky, and delusional.

It’s not. By any normal standard, Trump has committed numerous impeachable offenses. Special counsel Robert Mueller is almost assuredly going to tell us about many more. And if impeachment is the remedy to a manifestly unfit president, it’s long overdue.

But members of the Washington media elite take themselves Very Seriously.

It does not matter that the Very Serious People have been wrong about literally everything in the last couple decades. Their tone is considered “neutral” by the media elite. The “View from Nowhere” is actually the View of the Very Serious People.

The Very Serious People share an ideology — neoconservative on foreign policy, fiscally allegiant to the 1 percent — but what really defines them is their sense of moral superiority over those who get upset at the status quo.