This week, in the United States Senate, Democrats launched one of the most cynical attacks on democratic norms our nation has ever endured. That may sound severe, especially given the farcical nature of the impeachment of Donald Trump and the laughable odds that the Senate may remove him. But it’s true. For all the years of breathless accusations that Trump is the norm-breaker in chief, what we saw Tuesday morning is the shattering not just of a norm, but of the very basic notion that Americans are a free people who elect their own leaders.
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