David Brooks, flat out wrong on recommendation to bar Trump from office.

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12. Voters vote, they cannot enforce the law or hold a person to legal punishments

Once again we are subjected to a predictable rhetorical dodge from a GOP loyalist.

Not re-electing really would have no down stream legal consequences, and the potential downstream legal consequences of a guilty verdict is precisely what the United States needs to prevent more occurrences of trying to overthrow the Constitution.

Strange that 'conservatives in congress and the media' who research has shown to be pushed by cognitive motivators such as fidelity to written authority (I refer to research by Jost et al) choose to turn the attempted coup into a game of weasel words and thus dismiss its gravity

How does one get around such a curiosity... well one hypothesis would be that the supposed 'Conservatives' really are not philosophically 'conservative', but rather are simply rowdy obstructionist thugs seeking power in order to deny power to others (i.e. democrats) so that the imposter conservatives can achieve the sort of ends which are preferred by powerful imposter conservative thugs.