President Donald Trump keeps racking up high crimes like they're rounds of taxpayer-funded golf, threatening civil war or execution as punishment for any attempt to hold him accountable. You would assume he's the greatest threat to democracy that we face.
But you would be wrong. The Republicans in Congress who are inviting Trump to continue his torching of the Constitution are the greatest threat to this republic that any of us will ever see. And impeachment will fail unless it exposes this complicit and cowardly GOP.
At long last, we've finally arrived at a serious effort to hold accountable a man who has been violating his oath of office since the words came out of his mouth. But for this process to be a success, it needs to do more than charge the most obviously corrupt president in American history for posterity or even help us “actually find out every rotten thing he and his kids have been up to,” as The New Republic put it.
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