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    Analysis: Divisive and bitter. That's what partisans like about impeachment

    by Noah Bierman and Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times Feb 05, 2020 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Minutes after President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace and left the White House in August 1974, Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as president and sought to heal a traumatized nation, declaring "our long national nightmare is over."

    Although President Donald Trump faces near-certain acquittal Wednesday after his rancorous impeachment trial in the Senate, a similar attempt at reconciliation or closure is difficult to imagine.

    Americans are instead left with toxic images from Trump's State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, with Trump refusing to shake House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's outstretched hand, and Pelosi later ripping up the text of Trump's speech in disgust.

    A nation stewing with partisan fury has grown angrier, with Democrats bitter over a president they believe got away with

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