President Trump was found guilty in the United States Senate of inciting an insurrection. The vote was 57-43. This was reported extensively in the press, and is now on his permanent record.
Unfortunately a majority does not a conviction make in a Senate trail of an impeachment. Still, I agree that a strong majority of the Senate, including 7 Republicans, voting to convict is a LONG way from the impeachment claims being ‘proven absolutely false’.
Impeachment is the Constitutional process by which we address wrong-doing by the President. Trump was impeached twice. Some people, like Gator, apparently, believe that was unfair persecution. Others believe he deserved it and should have been thrown out of office, but that result was prevented by partisan politics. Count me among that group.
At any rate, the process followed was Constitutional. Kingran aptly raised the issue of Garland’s Supreme Court nomination being left for dead by the Senate with many months left in Obama’s tenure. Grievously unfair, in the eyes of most of the nation, but legal under the Constitution, and now the Supreme Court is packed with right wing ideologues.
Politics is a nasty business, always has been. The partisan divide is quite bad now, but it has been before. Andrew Johnson was impeached and very nearly removed from office purely over political disagreements with Congress. We’ve had a Civil War!
Kingran is right that democracy is a huge underlying strength of the country. Okay, okay, it’s a representative republic, not a democracy, but still we were able to vote Trump out of office to correct course. And maybe we’ll vote Biden out of office to correct course again, even if I disagree with the ‘correction’.
There is more risk of the nation failing/revolution in a typical lifespan of 70-80 years than most people realize. We’ve had it happen or very nearly happen in the late 1700s and the mid-late 1800s. In the 1900s we ‘only’ had two world wars and multiple regional wars and thankfully avoided massive turmoil directly affecting the homeland. The 2000s are early … don’t think it can’t happen here, because it could indeed.