I don’t know if they see the full potential in this moment. I don’t know how committed they are to the opportunity. I hope they are. Whatever’s ahead, it will be messy, risky, uncertain, and possibly chaotic. It has already been sensational, and it will continue to make riveting TV. But, unlike most of the headline-grabbing political scandals over the last decade, this spectacle is, right now, in service of an engaging, agentic, pro-civic purpose: Can we regroup, try our darndest, and figure this thing out together?

I, for one, cannot wait to find out.