While reading Professor Richardson’s latest missive, I ran across this passage:
It’s hard to look away from the reality that the Republican senators could have stopped this catastrophe at many points in Trump’s term, at the very least by voting to convict Trump at his first impeachment trial. At the time, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, “Out of one hundred senators, you have zero who believe you that there was no quid pro quo. None. There’s not a single one.” Republican senators nonetheless stood behind Trump. “This is not about this president. It’s not about anything he’s been accused of doing,” then–majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his colleagues. “It has always been about November 3, 2020. It’s about flipping the Senate.”
And now I want to be a cartoonist. My cartoon would show Mr Trump ascending a ladder, no doubt a rear view, and each rung, in classic editorial cartoon fashion, would be composed of a Senator, with name attached, who voted against a verdict of guilty.
The question would be the goal for which Trump ascends. Maybe just a label: The Fascist States of America. And McConnell could be seen muttering, The Senate is more important than the Country! as Trump steps on his head.
Darn my lack of talent!
