The U.S. Senate begins its second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, brought about by a House impeachment on the grounds of fomenting the Capitol insurrection, and thanks to a specious argument against convicting a former President coupled with a fear of the Trump (that is, Republican) base, most Senate Republicans will likely vote to acquit. But House Democratic impeachment managers will undoubtedly put up a damning and damned convincing argument for Trump's conviction to win in the court of public opinion.
That shouldn't be too hard, given Trump's extremely low approval ratings at the time he left office and President Biden's popularity for his actions to get America as far from Trumpism as possible. And this Senate trial, remember, is a civil case. In New York State, potential criminal cases are pending, as noted here before, and there's nothing Trump can do about that.
In the meantime, we have to sit through this trial figuratively while a hundred U.S. Senators have to sit through it literally. And watching the Trump impeachment trial will be like watching Citizen Kane after someone told you that Rosebud was Kane's sled - you already know the ending.
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