Where are today’s statesmen? Are there any? Evidence for their existence is slim.

When a question as serious as impeachment looms, senators and representatives owe it to the public to put partisan hackery aside, to apply independent thought to the evidence, to avoid ideological cliches, and to try to analyze the whole situation as if the party labels involved were reversed. As Hamilton wrote in “Federalist 65,” they must “preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality.”

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