One thing I have been thinking about since yesterday: Trump committed SO MANY impeachable offenses while in office, and he was only brought to account for three of them. Just looking back at the obstruction issues from the Mueller investigation, the multiple other legal issues 1/

stemming from the Ukraine scandal (including separation of powers and issues and violations of the law from not delivering aid as required by Congress), and the entire rap sheet stemming from the events leading up to the insurrection on January 6 2/

(consider that if the violence hadn't happened, it is unlikely there would have been articles of impeachment for TRYING TO SHAKEDOWN A STATE OFFICIAL TO FABRICATE VOTES)...like, he was lucky to ONLY be impeached twice! But it highlights a major structural problem: 3/

It would have been (politically) impossible for Congress to just keep impeaching him, though they would have been legally justified in doing so. And they also have to keep the articles narrow when they do. So one party can just break the system by promoting someone SO corrupt 4/

that our checks and balances just can't keep up. I'm not sure where I'm going with this except that we got to Jan. 6 because his crimes weren't accounted for all along the way, for four years. I wish he HAD been impeached every time it had been warranted, so we had the rap sheet.

Actually, I can sum it up in a saying I heard once: "He who cares the least controls the most." That's how I feel about the GOP over the last four years.