President Trump's impeachment defense rests entirely on thoroughly debunked right-wing conspiracy theories. As Senator and former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney aptly noted, Republicans now find themselves on a Machiavellian (and Faustian) crusade to maintain power at all costs — facts, logic and duty to country be damned.
If historically-timid Democrats take their dedication to the rule of law and the Constitution seriously, they'll realize that much of Trump's political base is impervious to arguments – no matter how logical or factually sound – made outside of the truth-starved, conspiracy theory-peddling right wing media bubble. Welcome to Trumpian America.
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