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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4758255" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;The reason to convict Trump and bar him from office forever is rather simple: No sitting president has ever incited a violent attack on Congress. Allowing Trump to do so without sanction would invite a future president with autocratic ambitions and greater competence to execute a successful overthrow of the federal government, rather than <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/thoroughly-respectable-rioters/617644/" target="_blank">the soft echo of post-Reconstruction</a> violence the nation endured in early January. The political incentives for the Republican Party in convicting Trump may be unclear, but the stakes for democracy are not. The Senate must make clear that attempted coups, no matter how clumsy or ineffective, are the type of crime that is answered with swift and permanent exile from American political life.&quot;Adam Serwer</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4758255, member: 54375"] "The reason to convict Trump and bar him from office forever is rather simple: No sitting president has ever incited a violent attack on Congress. Allowing Trump to do so without sanction would invite a future president with autocratic ambitions and greater competence to execute a successful overthrow of the federal government, rather than [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/thoroughly-respectable-rioters/617644/']the soft echo of post-Reconstruction[/URL] violence the nation endured in early January. The political incentives for the Republican Party in convicting Trump may be unclear, but the stakes for democracy are not. The Senate must make clear that attempted coups, no matter how clumsy or ineffective, are the type of crime that is answered with swift and permanent exile from American political life." Adam Serwer [/QUOTE]

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