One of the points of impeachment is as a marker for history; to note in the annals that the action of that individual was so terrible that it must be branded forever as outside of the acceptable limits of the constitutional order.

The question for America is: is calling the election "stolen" for months after losing an election, poisoning supporters' brains until they riot at the Capitol to overturn it, while prowling the halls looking to execute legislators and the VP outside of the limits of US democracy?

To ask it is to answer it, of course. But that's the question impeachment asks. And why the US can't move on, and why no national healing can happen without first answering it. It is a baseline question on which democracy itself rests.

More concretely, this is the question the House must put to the Senate. Articles that list isolated examples (Jan 5 speech, GA phone call) are *insufficient*, because it needs to tie it together to the whole anti-democratic scheme. The Senate must confront that question directly.

Don't let it turn into a game of parsing, with senators saying "X was just words" or "Y was a doomed phone call". No. They are all part of a greater whole, and that greater whole is inarguable, inescapable, and far more terrible to confront than any single event. Put it to them.