to liz cheney about, maybe we should explore the 25th amendment. i ll call him and tell him he should resign. i should get a bunch of republicans off twitter. they re dangerous. house members, in particular, certain members. yet, as everyone on the panel and watching has been saying, the core contradiction of our time in the republican party is, privately, we hate this guy and wish he d go away. publicly, we can t quit him. there was a fleeting moment where they could have rid the party of donald trump, or made a real effort to do so. yes, perhaps mitch mcconnell thought trump would just go away, but there is something else at play. they read the room. mcconnell and mccarthy looked at their own caucuses, their party members, looked at the poll and relized how popular donald trump still was. the impeachment trial happened after trump was out of office, and there were few republicans willing to convict. there were a handful but not enough. mcconnell realized he could have lost the supp