Trump was impeached in 2020 for extorting Ukraine to deliver disinformation to help him against Joe Biden. To support this project, one must isolate the attack on Congress from the rest of the story of the 2019–20 presidential election. It amiably suggests that nobody need worry about the events of January 6 overmuch. This campaign derides Trump’s failed putsch as a shambles and a farce, an “altercation,” a protest gone wrong, a coup that was no coup. That’s why a great deal of effort is being invested in never “putting it like that”-in finding some formula of euphemism and excuse that normalizes Trump’s attempt to keep power despite electoral defeat. The woman killed at the head of the charge to find and abduct Pence has been elevated as a martyr. Meanwhile, many in the conservative world are celebrating the January 6 attackers as victims of political persecution, if not as outright heroes. And just in case that is not enough to deliver the outcomes they want, they are concentrating new powers in party-controlled branches of state governments.
Where they hold majorities in state legislatures, Republicans are rewriting election laws to impose new difficulties on Black Americans and others whose voting they wish to discourage. He remains the Republican Party’s best fundraiser, and the clear front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Trump has otherwise to date escaped all consequences for his attempted destruction of the Constitution. The president was impeached, but most Republicans in the House voted against the impeachment, and most in the Senate voted to acquit. In that time, honest and brave state Republican officials have been reviled, condemned, and punished by their own party. Half a year has now passed since supporters of the president stormed Congress in an effort to coerce Vice President Mike Pence to declare Trump the winner of the 2020 election. His efforts were defeated in great part because of the integrity and courage of state-level Republican officials. While he was president of the United States, Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election of 2020, first by fraud, then by violence.
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