Minnesota Democrats just voted as a unified bloc to kill an impeachment push against Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. Every single Democrat in the state legislature lined up, locked arms, and said, “Nope. Not happening. Nothing to see here. Move along.”

Remember when impeachment was “sacred” and “fundamental to our constitutional republic”? Pepperidge Farm remembers. So does everyone who sat through two separate Trump impeachments and got lectured for four straight years about how no one — NO ONE — is above accountability.

Unless they’re a Democrat governor in Minnesota, apparently. Then accountability is just a Republican talking point.

The vote wasn’t even close. Democrats didn’t agonize over it. They didn’t appoint a bipartisan committee. They didn’t call witnesses or review evidence or do any of the things they demanded during Trump’s impeachments. They just… blocked it. Shut the whole thing down before it could even get started.

Walz — you remember Tim Walz, right? The guy Kamala Harris picked as her running mate because he seemed “normal”? The guy who let Minneapolis burn during the 2020 riots while he sat on his hands for days? The guy who imposed some of the most draconian COVID lockdowns in the country while his wife was reportedly opening windows to smell the tire fires? That Tim Walz.

He went from failed VP candidate to a governor so controversial that members of his own state legislature tried to impeach him. That’s quite a trajectory. Most politicians at least wait until their second term to become this unpopular.

And Keith Ellison — the Attorney General who was supposed to be the adult in the room. The former congressman with his own history of abuse allegations that Democrats memory-holed faster than you can say “believe all women.” He was part of the impeachment push too. Two for the price of one.

But Minnesota Democrats decided the best course of action was to circle the wagons. Protect the team. Kill the process before any uncomfortable facts could come out in public testimony.

Pop quiz: What did Democrats say when Republicans raised procedural objections during Trump’s impeachment trials?

They said Republicans were “obstructing justice.” They said they were “putting party over country.” They said anyone who tried to block impeachment proceedings was “complicit” in wrongdoing. Adam Schiff practically burst a blood vessel on national television screaming about how Congress had a DUTY — a sacred, constitutional DUTY — to hold leaders accountable.

Well, Adam, your party just flushed that sacred duty down a toilet in St. Paul.

The online reaction has been exactly what you’d expect. “They’re panicking” was trending within hours of the vote. Conservative commentators are having a field day. And honestly, who can blame them? The hypocrisy is so thick you could spread it on toast.

Democrats spent 2019 and 2020 telling us that impeachment wasn’t partisan — it was patriotic. They said the process itself mattered, regardless of the outcome. They said refusing to allow impeachment proceedings was itself an impeachable offense. They invented entirely new theories of constitutional law to justify going after Trump.

Now? Process doesn’t matter. Accountability doesn’t matter. Constitutional duties don’t matter. The only thing that matters is whether the guy in the crosshairs has a D or an R next to his name.

We always knew this, of course. We said it at the time. We said, “You’re setting a precedent you won’t want to live with.” And they laughed and called us conspiracy theorists and said we were defending authoritarianism.

Well, here we are. The precedent is set. And Democrats are the ones refusing to live with it.

The beautiful thing about this story is that Minnesota Republicans didn’t even need to win the vote to win the argument. The vote itself IS the argument. Every single Democrat voting in lockstep to block impeachment — after their party weaponized impeachment twice against a Republican president — is all the evidence anyone needs.

They don’t believe in accountability. They never did. Impeachment was always a political weapon, not a constitutional principle. And now the whole country can see it.

Tim Walz gets to keep his job. Keith Ellison gets to keep his job. Minnesota Democrats get to pretend this never happened.

But the receipts are public. The vote is on the record. And every time a Democrat opens their mouth about “accountability” or “no one is above the law” for the rest of eternity, someone is going to pull up that Minnesota vote tally and say, “Really? Because your party had a different opinion when it was your guy.”

Welcome to the new rules, folks. Democrats wrote them. Now they get to live with them.