Thread by @SenWhitehouse

Here’s how the impeachment outcome looked to leading editorial & opinion pages:

“Republican senators are shockingly unaware of their constitutional obligations and unable to provide a coherent explanation for their actions.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

“What a reasonable senator could not do was what happened here: wholesale shirking of the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to assess — which includes a responsibility to obtain — all the evidence of potential wrongdoing.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-p…

“Over the past few years, Republicans who once warned that Trump posed grave dangers to both party and country have, one by one, cravenly buckled.”
usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

“Romney’s views are not all that rare among his Republican colleagues, who know in their hearts that what Trump did was inexcusable & indefensible, the crossing of a once unthinkable moral & ethical red line… What is rare, however, is Romney’s courage.”
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“Republican Senators… must have calculated that the wrath of a vindictive president is more dangerous than the sensible judgment of the American people, who, polls showed, overwhelmingly favored the summoning of witnesses.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-c…

“Yet the Senate Republican majority brushed all that aside. Instead of taking seriously their oath…senators — led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — voted cravenly, and largely along party lines, to acquit the president.”
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

“Everyone with principles has left the party.”
nytimes.com/2020/02/03/opi…