Well, we are at it again. Time after time, we have seen that Republicans are powerless to live up to anything approaching their oaths of office in the face of Trumpism. They were recently sworn in as "jurors" in the impeachment trial in the Senate, and they almost certainly perjured themselves when they swore to "do impartial justice." There will be nothing impartial about the trial in the Senate. They will not call witnesses. They will not hear new evidence. Hell, they will barely listen to the evidence we already DO have.
Every time some significant story comes along, we wait for the "reasonable Republicans" to restore our faith in our governing institutions. And with one exception - when a dying John McCain saved the ACA - the so-called Senate moderates have let us down.
There are no "reasonable Republicans" waiting to find their courage. They don't like Trump, but they - or at least their voters - hate Democrats so much that flirting with the end of true republican governance and the rule of law seems a small price to pay for keeping "filthy Demoncrats" from power.
There is only one cure for Trumpism. It's not only a landslide election of a Democratic president in 2020, but flipping 6-7 Senate seats, including Mitch McConnell's. The odds of that actually happening is vanishingly small, but really it's the only hope for our values and institutions.
If we are still writing history in 20 years, it won't be kind to McConnell and his ilk, but he - and they - have amply demonstrated that they simply don't care.
UPDATE: This is exactly right.
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