Average voters casually following the impeachment melodrama of the last have likely asked themselves: What the hell just happened? What was this all for?

Democrats in Congress are pretending that their stall in the process is about negotiating a “fair” trial, but they know they have no say in how the Senate trial goes because they’re not in power, just as Republicans had no say in the House impeachment investigation went because they weren’t in power there.

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