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A foreign solution to America’s political dysfunction Ishaan Tharoor © Samuel Corum/Getty Images A New York National Guard member at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 11. It’s hard to sugarcoat the Senate’s acquittal of former president Donald Trump. On Saturday, 43 Republican senators rejected the House impeachment managers’ rather convincing case that Trump helped incite the violent Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. Unmoved even by fresh evidence that their colleagues in the House had directly pleaded with Trump to call off the insurrectionist mob, the Republican lawmakers opted to stand by Trump, marking once more the polarization that defines American politics.

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