Heading into this country’s fourth brush with impeachment, Republicans and Democrats should be exceedingly careful as to what they choose to define as a serious matter, and what they decide to excuse.

Experience shows that what you say now can come back later to bite you. It happens in rather strange ways that you never expected, and by means that you never foresaw.

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