.ZeeshanAleem: It's not just Trump's insatiable quest for attention and power that's victimized Americans — it's the GOP's limitless capacity for political cowardice.
situation in which a party could've been moved to eject one of its members with a permanent ban from politics, it should have been this one. Trump openly showed disdain for the foundational principles of democracy with his lies about the 2020 election and calls for a violent assault to overturn the results. If things had shaken out a little differently that day — and closer to the way he envisioned it — Trump could've easily been complicit in the killing of lawmakers from both parties.
Moreover, it would've made strategic sense for the GOP to foreclose the possibility of a third presidential bid from a Republican who clearly had the appetite for more time in office, and lacked the discipline to execute his party's collective policy vision effectively. But even when it would have been exceptionally easy to excise the political cancer that is Trump, the GOP failed. Part of that failure was fear of backlash, as members of the party knew that the base loved Trump and that he was capable of destroying the reputation of someone on the right with just a few tweets.
But another part of the Republican failure to pull the trigger during impeachment was something darker than expediency-induced myopia. There was acceptance of the possibility of the future degradation — or outright demise — of American democracy if it served the goal of a reactionary political agenda.
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