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    Impeachment Is Working—Just Not as the Framers Expected

    The case against despair
    by David Frum Feb 07, 2021 6 minutes
    Source: Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty

    Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET on February 8, 2021.

    In 2020, President Donald Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to blackmail its president into fabricating dirt on Joe Biden. The House of Representatives impeached Trump for this act. The Senate acquitted him.

    In 2021, Trump incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Congress, in hopes of overturning his defeat in the presidential election. This act of incitement immediately followed Trump’s attempts to mobilize election officials in Republican states to find votes to reverse in his favor the certified election outcome.

    The House of Representatives impeached Trump for this act, too. The Senate seems certain to acquit him again.

    This pattern has pushed some to despair. Trump repeatedly committed impeachable offenses. The senators of Trump’s party repeatedly protected him. Does the impeachment remedy even function any more? What can be achieved by undertaking this second trial after the first? Is it not already confirmed that partisanship counts for everything,

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