Addressing his cheering supporters in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders declared, “This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.”
But wait, wasn’t the House vote to impeach him the beginning of the end for Donald Trump? The United States had never before impeached a president running for re-election, and now we are beginning to see some of the incongruities of switching from one constitutional process to another so quickly. One could be forgiven for thinking that the Democrats’ nominating process will play out as a sequel to the impeachment proceedings, a strange coda in which each candidate will try to prove to fellow Democrats the case against Mr. Trump that the House managers failed to win in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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