Yeah, yeah, so Trump was acquitted; but followed by a very clear denunciation of his behaviour by McConnell, which had been preceded by former Trump suck up Nikki Haley also making a clean break from Trumpism. Then Lindsay Graham, the southern weirdo who seems to be playing a continual game of "I love him, I love him not" with Trump, makes it clear that he will try to convince Trump to continue supporting the party, and harrumphing about the impeachment being ridiculous, etc etc.
This points to some serious disunity issues down the track.
The best overall take on the impeachment that I read was by David Frum in The Atlantic, basically arguing that despite acquittal, Trump still lost.
Perhaps the "put Trump behind us" side is just hoping that Donald will soon be too busy defending himself in various courts over various actions to be bothered thinking about trying to control the party from Florida, and in that way they won't have to deal with his nutjob base and the state based GOP branches which are, it would seem, still fervently pro-Trump.
On the pessimistic side of the question, though, is this piece on CNN: Is the GOP's extremist wing now too big to fail?
I have said it before, but I still think it's true: if there is going to be a clear case of a Right Wing anti government terrorism attack in the USA, as the security services obviously fear may happen, it would be better for the country for it to happen in the near future rather than in (say) a couple of years time, in order to send a message to the Republican base that this is where Trumpish coddling of violence takes them.
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