Trump’s Impeachment Was Already On Its Way to the Senate, and Republicans Still Couldn’t Sound Like They Meant It
By January 28, the House’s second impeachment of Trump was headed to the Senate, but Republican leadership was already hedging, delaying, and preparing excuses. The party that had spent months enabling his election lies was now trying to split the difference between accountability and loyalty. The result was a constitutional mess with a very familiar smell: everybody wanted the heat off them, nobody wanted to be the adult.
First recorded Jan 28, 2021·Meaningfully updated Jan 28, 2021
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Trump’s Impeachment Was Already On Its Way to the Senate, and Republicans Still Couldn’t Sound Like They Meant It
By January 28, the House’s second impeachment of Trump was headed to the Senate, but Republican leadership was already hedging, delaying, and preparing excuses. The party that had spent months enabling his election lies was now trying to split the difference between accountability and loyalty. The result was a constitutional mess with a very familiar smell: everybody wanted the heat off them, nobody wanted to be the adult.
By January 28, the House’s second impeachment of Trump was headed to the Senate, but Republican leadership was already hedging, delaying, and preparing excuses. The party that had spent months enabling his election lies was now trying to split the difference between accountability and loyalty. The result was a constitutional mess with a very familiar smell: everybody wanted the heat off them, nobody wanted to be the…
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