Republicans are unhinged from reality!

U.S. Constitution 14th Amendment:  "Section 3. No person shall be a senator, or representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House remove such disability."

Echo opinion letter to the editor, published in the Idaho State Journal newspaper.

On January 6, 2021, the siege of the U.S. Capitol was an egregious attack on our American democratic government and its elected officials, plain and simple. 

Moreover, I think if you viewed the impeachment hearing with an open mind, it would be very difficult to not come to this conclusion. Realizing that both Pence and Romney narrowly escaped lynching is among the numerous disturbing events of the day. How unhinged is Trump to direct an attack of this magnitude on his own party? Reports of Trump being “giddy” as he watched the siege of the Capitol points to his warped mindset and unhinged, erratic behavior. (Why didn’t then -the former- Vice President, Mike Pence. use the 14th amendment to remove Trump from office?)

I believe the 43 Senate Republicans who voted for acquittal entered the proceedings with closed, corrupted minds. Blind allegiance produced a significant number of “zombie” legislators, devoid of conscience, emotion and reason. Unhinged from reality and shame, they took a course to defend a man of sullied mind and character, and acquit him in the face of video substantiated evidence of sedition and insurrection.

I can only hope and pray that refusal to impose accountability does not lead to unhinging of our nation from its precious democracy.

From Greg Hegman, in Twin Falls, Idaho