The Democrats’ incompetence throughout the impeachment process showed itself again during Wednesday’s official House impeachment debate.

Wednesday was their chance to make one final, compelling case in favor of impeachment. Instead, speakers by the dozens repeated the same hackneyed talking points, broadly but ineffectively thematic, in a way that would convince nobody even remotely on the fence on impeachment, much less change any minds. How many times can representatives say “constitutional duty,” “abuse of power,” “sad day for America,” “conscience,” “solicitation of foreign interference in our elections,” and “the facts are clear?”