On Wednesday, 10 Republican members of the House of Representatives joined all Democrats in voting to impeach President Donald Trump on the charge of inciting insurrection. I do not know if God will intervene to spare the Republican Party as he once spared Sodom. I suspect God has better things to do. Besides, the devil looks after his own.
Those 10 Republicans deserve our respect. They saw the video of Sens. Lindsay Graham and Mitt Romney being accosted at the airport, being called "traitor!" so they know they may well have ended their political careers. They did so in order to fulfill the oaths they took just two weeks ago to defend the Constitution. Last week, they almost lost their lives at the hands of a pro-Trump mob.
They will likely lose their seats at the hands of pro-Trump voters because redistricting means that most members of Congress need only fear a political challenge from within their party in a primary. Three-quarters of Republican voters still back the president, according a Politico poll.
The other 197 Republicans voted not to hold the president responsible. They saw the airport videos and concluded they did not want that to happen to them! Their political interest alone justifies their stance. "I had to do it, don't you see, or else they'd go for me," sings Simon Peter in the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar," explaining why he denied Jesus three times.
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