The Case Against Impeachment Has Nothing to Do With Impeachment
Republicans aren’t fighting to keep Trump in office—they’re fighting to preserve white-minority power.
Throughout the caricature of an impeachment trial under way in the Senate, Democrats and the occasional Republican have been urging—begging, actually—Mitch McConnell and his like-minded Republican senators to be fair and/or patriotic and/or honorable when hearing what is a quite damning case of abuse of office, and then to vote their consciences and/or uphold the Constitution and/or save democracy. In other words, they are to vote against their political interests, remove Donald Trump from office, and then face an infuriated Republican electorate. But this is a unique moment in history, the counterargument goes.
Only it isn’t. What is being fought over on the Senate floor is as old as the nation itself. It has little to do with
