A majority of Senate Republicans voted to acquit former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial despite the fact that he had incited a violent riot just weeks earlier that sent then running for their lives.
According to the New Yorker's Susan Glasser, the calculus behind this for many was that Trump would simply fade away after having left office in such a historically disgraceful manner.
While speaking with The Bulwark podcast this week, Glasser outlined how Trump has kept his base completely loyal to him even after he left office under the cloud of an unprecedented second impeachment that saw seven Senate Republicans cross the aisle to vote for his conviction.
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"He is communicating with his part in the American electorate, with his Red America," Glasser explained. "And he correctly understood, in a way that so many people here in Washington, Republicans especially, got wrong, got catastrophically wrong: The idea that he wasn't going to be exiled and disgraced after January 6th, he was going to come back."
Three years after leaving office, Glasser continued, Trump now appears poised to "reconsolidate power over his party" and once again secure the Republican nomination for the presidency.
Watch Glasser on the video below or at this link.
