Or at least the ring leaders.

I don’t think Teddy would co-sign your statement pardner

Of course he would. This isn't a conspiracy against a man. It is an attempt to overthrow a lawful election. An election they lost even after they rigged it in their favor. It is a bunch of disgusting bureaucrats committing treason because they think they can get away with it.

Utilizing a constitutional procedure that our Founders had the foresight to include is simply not treasonous however you want to put it

Trump’s done a heck of a lot to earn it, too

The GOP Senate shut it down, Romney excepted, because they are spineless partisan hacks, so I really don’t see what you are complaining about honestly

Yep, let the voters decide indeed. And let impeachment die as a practical tool of holding presidents accountable.

It doesn't include high crimes made up and sold to the judiciary and the public through fraud and propaganda. It doesn't include ruining the life of a 30 year war hero because he might tell the president what you are doing. The entire investigation was an exercise in corruption. This was an attempted coup and should be punished accordingly.

Selective outrage.

The one thing our Founders didn’t predict, or didn’t properly account for, was the development of partisan politics and, as a result, how hyperpartisan the impeachment process would become.

It takes the votes of 2/3 of the Senate to remove an impeached president. After Ukrainegate and the failed impeachment that resulted, it is hard to imagine any presidential conduct that would ever meet that standard. In addition to the holistic obstruction that prevented the House from fully investigating the charges, obstruction which was rubber-stamped by the GOP Senate.

No witnesses were called by the Senate. Trump himself never testified or even showed his face on the Senate floor. Indeed it was a joke of an impeachment trial, but not for the reasons you are probably thinking.

Impeachment is a dead-letter provision of the Constitution until we one day get a new Constitutional Amendment to clarify processes. Otherwise, all future Presidents will simply figuratively crumple up and toss aside any impeachment articles thrown their way, and their own parties will let them do it.

Well said!