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GOP Senators Must Take the Hard Path

The time for hoping that someone else will deal with the pathology of Trumpism is long past.

The Dispatch Staff
Jan 16, 2021
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I want to begin with a hypothetical. Let’s imagine that on February 5, 2020, almost two dozen GOP senators had done a very, very hard thing. Following Mitt Romney’s history-making break with a president of his own party, they each got up—one-by-one—and declared their intention to vote to convict Donald Trump. Af…

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