Resonating with republican voters who are possibly going to be leaving trump and going to biden . So when theres sort of these twotime trump voters who have decided theyre out on donald trump, it tends to be January 6th. Like, there was a Break Moment for a certain section of republican voters. I know we hear a lot about how and its true, look, most republican voters absolutely are tolerant of trumps behavior, defend his behavior, have continued to do from, you know, January 6th being a terrible day to, now, you know, supporting, saying that January 6th the people who attacked the capitol are hostages. But there are this subset of people, and i have to tell ya, they tend to be older republicans, because they are the republicans who came of age under ronald reagan, who, you know, still believe in a republican party based on limited government, free markets, american leadership in the world, and theyre the ones who, after January 6th, said, im done
The Atlantic
February 9, 2021
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One casualty of a moment in American life when politics seems to pervade everything is an inability by many prominent people to tease apart what is and is not a matter of politics.
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which gets under way today, offers several prime examples. As the refrain went during Trump’s first impeachment, in 2019 and early 2020, the impeachment process is political and not legal, even though it resembles a criminal trial. Yet in both the Democratic House managers’ case for prosecution and (more seriously) the defense brief from Trump’s attorneys, there is a confusion between matters that are appropriately legal or factual, and those that are political.