Today is the day the republican party goes down! (#4396)

      I will say now that the senate republicans will not convict even though the evidence is overwhelming. We all saw it in real time so this is a no-brainer. Yet the lack of brains or courage or morals or ethics will prevail today because 17 honest republican senators are not known to exist within the 50 republican senators. That should tell you all you need to know about the state of the republican party. They are fearful cowards who are afraid of their own political consequences if they uphold democracy and the rule of law. You got that, correct? They are not heroes nor examples of honor. They are the opposite and they want your vote the next time they run to be your representative.
     The stature of our nation is being dismantled before our eyes and anyone who thinks that we are the land of the brave are being taught a dishonest rude lesson. The brave exist here in our nation but not abundantly. Instead we are a fearful lot who cannot find the logic to be better than our worst. It is a shame what is being exposed as fact here with what trump inspired to happen to our nation's capitol but shame doesn't seem to register on the radar of too many republicans. We democrats stand united in the facts and for that we should be commended. But the cost/benefit paradigm is one that takes republicans to join with us to make effective. A 67 vote threshold is required to convict thus the need for 17 republican senators.
     It is my contention that the law of unintended consequences will make this coming decision to not convict trump a much worse reality for republicans especially and the rest of us generally. By choosing to side with a wanna be dictator the republican party will find that their narrative of being useful to our democracy will have shrunk so much that they are effectively pulling their own roots out. I find it gratifying in that the republican party's narrative became useless decades ago with nixon then reagan. But the throes of destruction they are going through now not only obliterate their survival as an illusory viable party but take us down that spiral with them with little comfort before we can extricate ourselves from them.