I watched a good deal of the House presentation today. The evidence that Trump incited his followers to attack the Capitol is clear, and yet a majority of Republican Senators, men and women who were led out of the Chamber to protect them from the rioters, will vote to acquit.
If they vote to convict, they may very well lose their primary. They won’t get shot, won’t get arrested, won’t get exiled to a foreign country or have their spouses taken away, or be water-boarded. They might lose an election.
I wonder what it would have taken to get them to vote to convict. If one of them had been killed by the rioters. Obviously a few cops weren’t enough. If Pence had been hanged would they convict? If somebody had put a bullet into Nancy Pelosi’s brain, as more than one person threatened to do, would they convict? What would it take?
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