It’s an obvious point, but it can’t be emphasized enough, that the predicament that America’s partisan political competition is currently in is because the Senate failed to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial. Whatever one thinks of how the 2016 election was handled (either before or after, including the Mueller investigation), and whatever one thinks of Trump’s first impeachment and its ensuing acquittal, Trump’s attack on the essence of electoral democracy in the aftermath of his defeat in 2020 required the response that it did not receive in the Senate. Just as no person is permitted to be elected president for a third term, no person should have been permitted to be elected again after the kind of especially egregious effort to subvert republican self-government that Trump pe

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