The Globe and Mail
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Trump stalwarts to the right of them, angry progressives to the left of them, into the valley of impeachment-trial defeat ride the Democratic Senate leaders.
Stormed at with Republican shot and shell – and about a dozen votes short of the 67 required to convict Donald J. Trump of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” set out in the American Constitution – the Senate nonetheless presses forward Tuesday with its trial of the 45th president.
With his first Senate trial (and acquittal) almost exactly a year in the past, this second trial (and its likely acquittal) has been transformed from what the American Founders considered a forbidding rite of judgment into what since the ascendancy of Mr. Trump has become nearly a rote ritual.