Perspective by Dan O’Donnell
For more than a month now, Democrats and their allies in the media have been in a state of high dudgeon over the riot at the U.S. Capitol, which they have hysterically labeled the gravest threat to the republic since at least 9/11 and perhaps Pearl Harbor.
In reality, their response to it the utterly unconstitutional Senate trial of a private citizen is a far greater threat to the long-term stability of American democracy than some jackass in Viking horns.
The United States Senate has as much constitutional or legal authority to try Donald Trump this week as it does Kim Kardashian. While the public spectacle of such a show trial might be tantalizing revenge porn for liberals desperate for one last shot at the former President, it sets a dangerous, untenable precedent.