Spartacus Has Left the Building
Mitt Romney announced his plans to retire from the Senate, and he’ll take one of the last vestiges of GOP norms with him. To mark the occasion, let’s recall the moment Mitt stood, and stood alone, for what was right during Trump’s first impeachment.
The following is an excerpt from my book, Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn’t End.
Adam Schiff closed out the House managers’ case against Trump with this: “You can’t trust this president to do the right thing, not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can’t. He will not change and you know it . . . Is there one among you who will say enough?”
Not for one minute, not for one election, not for one tweet.
Schiff’s congressional district included West Hollywood, home to some of the most famous entertainers in the world. But there was no question which resident gave the best performance during the weeks that encapsulated the House impeachment and Senate trial. By the time the trial ended, liberal parents were buying their toddlers Superman pajamas telling them the S stood for Schiff.
But three years into the relentless, unabashed enabling of an anything-goes presidency, the US representative from California’s Twenty-Eighth District may have intended as rhetorical the question: “Is there one among you who will say enough?”
But there was an answer: Yes. Exactly one.
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