US Politics - Most of the Republican senators have sacrificed their minds and souls to whatever botched pseudo-principled dead-end that they occupy, but even if they do not vote for conviction during the impeachment proceedings, I take comfort that at least they are having to sit through a thoughtful prosecution by the House team. They will not be able to say (such Senators as Senator Cruz will try to do) that the House did not prove its case.

There are many reasons that former President Trump should be barred from holding further office, barred from the Republican Party, and sent to prison, and there will not be time to pursue all of those reasons in the years to come, and we cannot necessarily expect that Mr. Trump will be convicted under the Impeachment system, or that he will be convicted of anything under the conventional criminal justice system.

Still, even assuming an impeachment conviction is not attained, as a matter of principle, I like that some are trying for this. There were plenty of crimes he ikely committed, as President, but this one was horrible, and a direct attack on the rule of law itself, and as a country I think we need to defend the rule of law by going through this process even if some Republican Senators refuse to see that.