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It's a mistake for Democrats to rush impeachment process

"The test of a first-rate intelligence," F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

I make no claim to being a first-rate intelligence. I'm not even sure I can claim to function on many days. But that's OK, since Washington has elevated mere functioning to an unattainable ideal.

Regardless, I find myself sympathetic to two ideas that partisans

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