Former President Trump has reportedly bragged to aides and advisers that not only does he expect to be acquitted during his second Senate impeachment trial, but that he views trial itself will be as an opportunity for “accountability” for the handful of House Republicans who dared to vote in favor of his impeachment for “incitement of insurrection” last month.
I don’t think his talking about “accountability” for the people trying to hold him accountable is any sort of sublimated guilt or whatever. Some people—sociopath people—just don’t care. They don’t have consciences. But it’s remarkable how he always crudely turns it around on his accusers. If they say he has weird hair he immediately says they have weird hair and so forth. It’s very strange to have him be so irrelevant now, and yet he’s the same freak he always was. The whole thing seems surreal in retrospect.
I’m more and more certain that this legal and legitimate impeachment trial will acquit the former president. Acquittal will be based not on the evidence and facts (which are overwhelming), but on the Senate R’s repugnant choice of party ideology of Trumpism over country.
My fervent wish is that odious choice will be the motivation for the third of our citizens, who chose not to vote, to get of their duffs and vote the Trumpist Party into oblivion.
They’re also choosing to keep their jobs. Remember in “Rocky,” he was presented as a bit too kindhearted to break the thumbs he was supposed to break as a Mob enforcer? These guys shrug, and break the thumbs.
Agree with your prediction but just one not insignificant quibble: Trumpism is a cult of personality, not ideology. Which makes his GQP defenders’ rabid obeisance all the more despicable. The few Liz Cheneys in the GOP are choosing ideology by wanting to end Trump completely.
ETA: And @mattinpa is correct they’re also choosing political survival over their Constitutional oath.
“Trump has turned his post-presidency focus onto punishing the 10 House Republicans who joined Democrats in voting to impeach him for the second time…”
Donald: “I will crush my enemies, drive them before me, and hear the lamentations of their women!”
(Immediately becomes distracted by limited reintroduction of McRib sandwich at select locations only)