BTRTN: Long View on Acquittal: Bad for Republicans, Good for Dems, New Meaning of "Common Ground" [View all]
Born To Run The Numbers on the implications of the acquittal on the long term... for Republicans, Democrats, and the paralyzing failure to share a common grasp on objective reality.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2021/02/btrtn-long-view-on-acquittal-bad-for.html
Excerpts: "Look, Democrats, I get it: it seems to defy logic that there is anything good in this acquittal. We witnessed brilliant House Managers lay out an open-and-shut case while the hapless lawyers representing the former president toggled between ignorant incoherence and pompous irrelevant bloviation, all in a case focused on the most blatant example of a 'high crime and misdemeanor' that we can imagine short of a President actually having his Vice President murdered. Which, we hasten to remind, Donald Trump also tried to do...
"This Senate impeachment trial was, in the end, nothing more nor less than the perfect metaphor for a polarized country in which one group of citizens is capable of seeing reality and dealing with it, while the other side refuses to see objective truth, pretends that it can deny reality, and spins ever greater fantasy rather than accept the responsibilities that objective reality places on human beings..."
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