Yes or No on conviction is equivalent to approve or disapprove of insurrection

[bucolic_frolic]

Republicans who approve must be driven from office. Voters will not forget.

[lagomorph777]

1. Qpublicans are on trial. They will vote to convict themselves.

Voters will mete out the punishment.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Yes that exactly

It's a giant political boomerang Republicans have thrown. The Founders so locked up their system to deal with most any possibilities. They studied history, and were learned men, like none since. They read books. They had skin in the game.

I'm a big fan of Crane Brinton's 1930s book "The Anatomy of Revolution". It seeks to define comparisons between various revolutions. Two thoughts on that. Trumpian insurrection is the Reign of Terror. And thought two, the Founders sought to design a political system that permanently absorbed discordant political and economic strife into elections, sort of revolution for every generation without the upheaval of actual revolt, war, terror. Throw the bums out every 20 years instead of allowing issues to build to rebellion. So far, we've escaped fairly well, if the insurrection is the end of it. I can't imagine there being more desire to digest more rebellion.

[triron]

2. And premeditated murder and assault.