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Ross Douthat writes the Mitch McConnell has one chance to stop Donald Trump from continuing to warp Republican politics for the next four years, so he should take it.

Why the Republican leader should be tempted by the Senate’s opportunity to bar Trump from running for president again.

No One Will Let Trump Go Away There is a real and genuine desire among almost every responsible actor in American politics to move on from the era defined by Donald Trump’s presidency. Only cynicism—a condition distinct from wisdom—would lead anyone to honestly conclude that the nation’s stakeholders welcome the events of January 2021. But moving on is a luxury that won’t come easy. Even if those stakeholders are sincere in their desire to turn the page on this bitterly fractious moment in American history, the incentives to do that don’t exist. What is the Democratic incentive to...

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Reuters is announcing that the Democrats will introduce a bill of impeachment against President Trump on Monday. That, if your numeracy is working, is seven days (maybe eight, depending upon how you count it) until Joe Biden’s inauguration as Usurper in Chief. REUTERS: House Democrats plan to introduce new articles of impeachment against President Trump on Monday Why, you may ask, would a sane political party with sane leadership enter into this nonsense within a week of a change of government? The short answer is that you really wouldn’t. There is no way in Hell...

Granted, we’ve got vaccines now, but even if everyone got them, it would be late spring before we could safely unmask. And given the number of delusional nitwits amongst us, it probably won’t happen that quickly. I was looking around the grocery store the other day. We’re polite people and don’t have a lot of militant anti-maskers, and I thought, “What if this is the default?” That is, I remember when people smoked in the store. In fact, I remember when it stopped. The store posted a sign saying “No smoking” and someone wrote underneath, “You sell cigarettes!”