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RINO, the pejorative acronym for Republican In Name Only, wasn’t widely used if at all in 1868. But if it were, it would have doubtlessly been applied to the seven senators that voted to acquit Johnson. It’s a rather remarkable loop in history that the first Senate trial of an impeached president would have the same number of Republican defectors as the most recent. Every presidential impeachment has happened amid a political culture war—and the post-Civil War Johnson impeachment was over how to carry out Reconstruction. The cultural divide in the Trump era is vast—but not comparable to the postwar...

Two days removed from his second impeachment acquittal, former President Donald Trump was returning from a day of golf when he was greeted by a throng of flag-waving fans as he neared his Mar-a-Lago estate. The President's Day scene in West Palm Beach, Fla., which included jubilant supporters with signs that declared "Trump won," even impressed Dan Scavino, a veteran of many of his boss' sold-out rallies. "This is unbelievable," the longtime aide tweeted Monday. The spontaneous event was a not-so-subtle reminder that the Twitter-banished, twice-impeached 45th president remains a continuing force inside the GOP. Anyone who thinks otherwise does...

Donald Trump is no longer president. It’s not the result we wanted. Without a doubt, if COVID didn’t hit, Trump would have won re-election in a landslide. But that didn’t happen. Now, we’re left with a Biden presidency, a Democratic Congress, and a liberal media establishment that’s in total euphoria that Trump is no longer president. It’s irritating but if you take a step back, it could be fun throwing their nonsense right back at their faces. For example, the liberal media and Democrats have a mask fetish over COVID, but it’s totally fine to take them off and violate...