Brian Williams surprised me when he said that

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33. Conservative Jennifer Rubin also says a lot of Republican senators

are willfully ignorant and are probably hearing a lot of this evidence for the first time. Hard to believe, I agree, but over the past 30 years the good ones were purged and replaced with mostly hard-right ideologues and go-alongs. And this era is revealing what anti-democracy RW plutocrats have created to front for them in government.

So yesterday, and again today, while Democratic house managers with meticulous precision lay out the evidence and also speak principle to the nation, Republican senators are forced to sit and hear it all. No one's saying it'll change their votes. But it's probably making some of them unhappy.

VP Biden to on Scarborough: "I was embarrassed for the institution. I was there a long time, Joe, and I never saw anything like that. ... I think it’s one of those things they’re going to regret when their grandchildren read in the history books about what they did."

Yup. Except many have grandchildren already watching the proceedings. Their descendants will learn about it in school.

Rubin points out that Chief Justice Roberts is also spending long hours watching the Republican senate in stunningly corrupt action and that this might affect him. He'll be ruling on a lot of Trump/executive branch issues back on the court. Roberts is watching the enormous contrast between the Democrats laying out evidence with meticulous precision and citing the constitution and the Republicans, with no legal case to offer, are promising and using their power to smash our government.