Okay, you're not going to like my opinion...
...but what's going on in the House today is why ordinary voters don't like Congress. The House is spending its time debating (or more precisely NOT debating) a resolution that has nothing to do with the pocketbook issues they care about and will vote on next year. Every Democratic member has already condemned Trump's remarks; there's no value in a partisan vote to stamp the same condemnation with the House's approval. This vote isn't going to change anyone's mind in the electorate: either they support Trump or they support the Democrats or they don't care.
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Or are they? I don’t get why you challenged what I said. I think it’s perfectly OK though. 
We are not our descendants. They are not us. We can only do what seems right to us now based on what we'd like to achieve. Our descendants will have a totally different view based on hindsight and a probably different standard of morality.
The signers of the Treaty of Versailles believed they were making a great historical pact for lasting peace. John Maynard Keynes walked out, predicting disaster. With hindsight, we see that he was right and they had made one of the greatest blunders in history.
With even more hindsight and a different standard of morality, we see that it was both immoral and another blunder for them to give European nations independence but not Asian or African nations. They refused Ho Chi Minh's request for independence and he too walked out. Nobody predicted how that would end up, probably not even Ho Chi Minh himself.
So my view is that doing things for the sake of historical record is fruitless. We don't have the advantage of hindsight and we don't know what standards our descendants will use to judge us.
But you are right that it's okay to disagree.
cheers.
Everything else is unimportant. At least to anyone and everyone I know who is not a complete ideologue.
Most Americans don't care if the president is a saint or an asshole, corrupt or clean. They care about their paycheck, their healthcare, their living situation.
OTOH, it's not like anything they debate, write, or pass is going to get through the Senate 
On a serious note. The thing that sometimes discourages me is how disengaged people here are from politics, as if it is something external to "regular life". I remember the sense of embarrassment expressed by French politicians that there was only 75% turnout for an election. People make fun of the French, the British, and Germans about how they are "always protesting something" or demanding something from their government. They are making fun of actual political engagement, of people who work and have lives like we do here, but who are also actively engaged in expressing themselves to their elected representatives.
It is true that how a politician will vote on transgender bathroom use issues is something that affects a small number of people, but people don't stop to consider that a person that is open to supporting the dignity of a marginalized group will likely have a much greater possibility of supporting a living wage for workers, for making large corporations more accountable to the communities in which they are located, and for protecting the environment.
People think that politicians don't listen and don't care but what do we do that makes them care when almost half of us don't turn out to vote, and likely don't even know who their representatives are.
