Last Friday, the 38-year-old Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff surprised Hill Democrats when he declared, at a town hall in Cobb County, that President Donald Trump “has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment.” The remark struck a chord for a couple reasons beyond the obvious jitters that attend any deployment of the “I” word. First, in Democratic circles, the idea of attempting to impeach Trump at this stage—despite the deportations, constitutional crisis fears, tariffs, etcetera—is considered a nonstarter. The party all too keenly remembers the impotence of their past two impeachment attempts. And these days, throwing the word around is widely perceived on both sides as little more than an attention-seeking stunt.