I do not like Mitt Romney, I do not trust him but I will give him credit for being the only Republican who didn't vote to let Donald Trump's crime spree continue. If, as I hope and pray, the Republican Party implodes under the weight of Trump, Romney will be the only one who has that distinction. Every single other Republican member of Congress has betrayed their oath of office and deserves to go down for it.
So I note that he did the honorable thing and, so we're told, gained himself the historical place of being the only Senator of the impeached president's party to vote for his conviction and removal. I'm prepared to see if he changes, otherwise, but he'll have to convince me by action, not by words.
Which, in itself, proves that the "founders" means of stopping even the most corrupt and criminal of presidents will never work to do that. If it doesn't remove Trump, if it didn't remove any of a number of criminal presidents, it is dangerous to keep pretending that it will save us from them. It won't.
And why would Republicans want to stop Trump from colluding with Putin and billionaires foreign as well as domestic to ratfuck American elections, the thing that Nixon was engaged in which ended up with him resigning - the only time impeachment came at all close to working.
Trump's crimes benefit Republicans, it benefits them in their elections, they are the beneficiaries of Putin's and other billionaire criminals rigging our elections. The rules as rigged by Republican Supreme Court appointments and the "civil liberties" establishment are a guarantee of that kind of corruption by the most corruption prone. Why would Republicans want to change that by following their oath of office and the law? Among those Republicans who benfitted the most are the Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump, by Bush II who got in by irregular methods and the previous Court Republican majority putting him there. They don't have to run for election, they've got their asses on that bench till they rot in body as well as soul as they sit there, now.
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