I was skeptical of Democrats pursuing a second impeachment. I was wrong.

[Zorro]

Opinion by Karen Tumulty

I am not generally a fan of futility, which is why I was skeptical about the wisdom of congressional Democrats pursuing a second impeachment and post-presidential conviction of Donald Trump.

The ending of this unprecedented exercise was written before it even began: Once again, Trump would be acquitted by the Senate, where fewer than the requisite 67 would vote to convict him. And once again, it would be safe to predict that the 45th president will claim this is some sort of exoneration.

It seemed smarter, and politically safer, to punish Trump some other way — perhaps with a censure, which would require only a majority.

But having watched what has unfolded this week in the Senate chamber — a scene of the crime — I now realize I was wrong.

The House managers have laid out a devastating case, for the American public and for history. They are making clear not only Trump’s culpability but the complicity of the Republican hierarchy that enabled him and the murderous, self-styled “patriots” who took up his call for insurrection.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-skeptical-of-democrats-pursuing-a-second-impeachment-i-was-wrong/2021/02/11/9a026e78-6c82-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

[Walleye]

1. Yes it's all in the Congressional record now and the C-SPAN archive

[mdbl]

2. It's obvious that many republicans are just awful human beings

Can't say that enough, here and to them as well.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Had to be done.

If you believe in this Democracy, they had no choice.

[magicarpet]

4. It is imperative that the reactions of the Dems be recorded in the Congressional Records,...

.... and in the pages of history,... even if the ReThugs choose to acquit trDump.

Later when people ask why,... it will be in the record who put up the roadblocks to formally recognizing this shameful and astounding atrocity perpetrated upon our Democracy.

[Pantagruel]

5. "I am not generally a fan of futility,"

It may be futile but it's their sworn duty. Probably should have been the 3rd or 4th attempt , not the second. Schiff et al. made their case during Imp. -One, as new evidence came in ,should have re-impeached right into and through the election.
Never let up.

[pfitz59]

6. Futile and Stupid gesture