It's Fun to Speculate on What the Senate Will Do.

[MineralMan]

It's also an exercise in futility. We simply do not know, and many individual RepubliQan Senators will not reveal how they will vote until they vote.

Trump will either be convicted or he will not. We will not know until the Senate has voted.

We all hope that at least 17 GQP Senators will vote to convict. There may be that many who will pull up their big kid Underoos and vote to convict. Or not. They're all doing the math right now.

What happens if they vote to convict? Will that cost them the next election? Do they fear for their lives if they vote to convict? What are their constituents saying?

Those are the questions they are asking themselves. They are not asking themselves whether Trump is guilty of incitement to insurrection. They all know the answer to that question. Their votes will be purely political and related to their ambitions to continue to be Senators.

We will know the answer quite soon.

In the end, it will not matter in terms of the survival of our system of government. A new administration is in place, and Democrats have control of both houses of Congress. Barely, in the case of the Senate, but the control is there. The nation will muddle through until the next election. It is then when we must strive to increase those majorities. If we can do that, we will save the nation. We must do that.

So, speculate all you wish, but realize that we will have an answer very soon. Then we will know, and only then.

[empedocles]

1. True, however, appreciate that this whole spectacle, is influencing other public officials,

various publics, the historical records - and perhaps maybe some republicon Senators.

[MineralMan]

2. Yes, of course it is.

However, that may or may not affect the outcome of this Senate process. That is the only thing I am discussing here.

[empedocles]

5. The very 'speculation on what the Senate may do', may influence what individual

Senators will do. That may not be fu tile.

[MineralMan]

6. Not really. At least not speculation on DU.

I don't think there are any RepubliQan Senators who read DU.

[empedocles]

7. .

[lagomorph777]

3. I believe the trial, even seen in small clips, is having beneficial influence on voters.

[MineralMan]

4. Yes, I think so, too. However, this thread is only about

whether the Senate will vote to convict Trump. The affect on the general population and on voters is another matter, entirely.