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America Will Not Find 17 Republican Senators To Protect The Constitution From Enemies Foreign And Domestic

Democrats are work­ing like hell to save the American Democracy. Still, it will be a tall order because one of the two major polit­i­cal par­ties does not believe in the demo­c­ra­t­ic process.
The last Democrat to occu­py the pres­i­den­cy, Barack Obama, spoke to the fun­da­men­tal ques­tion of truth a few years ago.
Speaking to Comedian and Talk show host David Letterman Obama said:
“One of the biggest chal­lenges we have to our democ­ra­cy is the degree to which we don’t share a com­mon base­line of facts,” Obama said. “What the Russians exploit­ed, but it was already here, is we are oper­at­ing in com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent infor­ma­tion uni­vers­es. If you watch Fox News, you are liv­ing on a dif­fer­ent plan­et than you are if you lis­ten to NPR.”
“At a cer­tain point,” he con­tin­ued, “You just live in a bub­ble, and I think that’s why our pol­i­tics are so polar­ized right now.”

The tri­al of Donald Trump will begin in the United States Senate on February 9th, 2021; it is prob­a­bly a safe bet to opine that Donald Trump will not be held account­able because out of a pos­si­ble 50 Republican Senators, the Country will not find 17 to stand by the oaths to pro­tect the Constitution from ene­mies for­eign and domes­tic. And so the vast major­i­ty of them will push a lie, .…. a lie that has no mer­it, a lie that has been debunked by legal schol­ars from both sides of the polit­i­cal spectrum.
That lie is that the sen­ate has no con­sti­tu­tion­al author­i­ty to try a pri­vate cit­i­zen. The pri­vate cit­i­zen being Donald Trump.
They will turn their eyes from the fact, the truth, the irrefutable real­i­ty that Donald Trump is no ordi­nary cit­i­zen, but a failed pres­i­dent retired by the American voters.
Donald Trump [was] impeached a sec­ond time for incit­ing a mob of insur­rec­tion­ists to storm the US Capitol on January 6th, hop­ing that he would be giv­en a sec­ond term after they over­turned the elec­tion of Joe Biden.
Impeachment arti­cles [were] filed while trump was in office. Then Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell delayed the tri­al by using a straw­man argu­ment that he would be unable to recon­vene the Senate, which was on recess.

So even though Trump was impeached as a sit­ting pres­i­dent, and even though his tri­al would have con­vened and prob­a­bly con­clud­ed while he was in office but for McConnell’s gam­bit, Republicans are still per­pet­u­at­ing the lie that a pres­i­dent who out of office can­not be impeached.
If that lie is allowed to stand, pres­i­dents will for­ev­er be allowed to com­mit all kinds of egre­gious crimes at the end of their terms, and there will be no mech­a­nism to hold them accountable.
If those trai­tors to their oaths are allowed to have their way through those lies, any future pres­i­dent who los­es an elec­tion can ginn up his/​her sup­port­ers to attack the Legislative branch of the Government and over­turn the elec­tions on his/​her behalf.
This is lit­er­al­ly the real­i­ty; it is exact­ly what’s at stake; it ought to gal­va­nize Republicans and Democrats alike in a band of pro­tec­tion against the American Democracy. Only that Republicans in the US House and Senate have signed over their feal­ty to [one man] who has demon­strat­ed that he has the abil­i­ty to ral­ly sup­port around the cause of white supremacy.

One out­raged writer con­tends, “no amount of evi­dence will con­vince these frauds to extri­cate their lips from Trump’s ass. ” In ref­er­ence to Senate Republicans.
It must be remem­bered that Republican US Senators who will vote against the Constitutionality of impeach­ing Donald Trump on a fraud­u­lent process argu­ment and who will vote not to con­vict on the mer­its of the case, will for­ev­er be attached to a failed pres­i­dent who sought to end 240 plus years of con­sti­tu­tion­al democracy.
They will for­ev­er be stuck with the stench of that treach­ery; they will for­ev­er wear the scar­let let­ter “T” for trai­tor, all in servile def­er­ence to a con-artist.
What aris­es from these real­i­ties is the sem­i­nal ques­tion of what is at stake for the white suprema­cist par­ty that the Republicans have final­ly mor­phed into.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.