What is the goal of journalists and home viewers just announcing that GOP Senators will vote to acquit? It reads like they are excusing that future outcome. We don’t know how they’ll vote yet, and how they vote hinges on how it’s reported and discussed.
I am deeply averse to this air of cleverer-than-thou or cynicism that just serves to justify the cynical acts of Senate Republicans. Your job in this moment, as a citizen or a pundit or reporter, is not to prognosticate but to describe what you feel as the case is laid out.
Not picking on @fmanjoo here, but this is a prototypically bad tweet. Bad for America, justice, democracy. At most, a self-fulfilling prophecy. But also offers a pre-emotive excuse to those Senate GOPers who want to act cynically. Don’t make it easy! 
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