Most of today’s Republican senators will think of themselves only as senators and, worse, as modern senators: passive passengers on a minor planet, the Senate, orbiting the presidential sun. Today’s impeachment has had benefits and will have more. Or blinkered Republican senators can affirm the president’s self-assessment as perfect yet persecuted. And incandescent Democratic senators can demand his removal — due process and valuable norms be damned — because he threatens due processes of law and valuable norms. Senators must now risk indecent exposure of their minds.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2020 21:11 UTC