Doyle McManus: High politics and low will be on display in impeachment drama
WASHINGTON - The fix is in. The jury is anything but impartial. The verdict is pretty much foreordained.
But that isn't what this trial will be about.
The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, expected to begin in earnest next week, is formally about a weighty constitutional question: Has Trump abused the powers of his office?
But it's also about politics, of course.
To borrow from Clausewitz, impeachment is the continuation of politics - including election-year
