Prof. Woland says:
"The problem with the Senate impeachment trial is that the average Democrat is brain dead and cannot be persuaded or convinced of the truth even if it walks up and bites them in the face. They are impervious to shame and facts. And the Lawfare scum is even worse. They know they are lying and don’t care. They know that the cost of this thing blowing up in their faces is the loss of the moral high ground and 40 years in the wilderness like the Republicans after Watergate. So time to put the sword in their necks and send them all back to hell."
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Yoi!
This is what is making the detour regrettably necessary.