February 13, 2021
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump was a Rorschach test for the Republican Party. We have known for a long time who Donald Trump is, and what he was doing. We weren’t be surprised by anything that happened. The Democratic impeachment managers laid out the case against Trump in an unequivocally straight line from cause to effect. This is no longer about Trump. He his guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. The trial was about the Republican Party, and the whole world was watching. What it saw was a political party afraid of the facts.
We were all looking at the same set of ink blots. Some of us saw a President who sold his own country down the river in order to hold on to power. The Republican Party saw something different. The Republican Party had all the evidence it needed to convict Trump, yet the cowardly Republican Senators could not bring themselves to convict. They clung to the First Amendment as if it was the Second. They twisted themselves up in process arguments. Ten months was not enough time to put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court, and two weeks in January not enough time to convict a traitor. The GOP should rename itself the RIP. Blue lives don’t matter. The oath of office doesn’t matter. The Republican Party has declared officially that nothing is impeachable. The ink blot that we are all looking at is the stain that the Republican Party has left on American democracy.
The Spin Doctor 