Republicans Don’t Even Know What They’re Covering Up

Jonathan Bernstein: “Republican senators don’t even know what they’re covering up for, or at least what they would be covering up for if they follow the White House’s preference to rush through the Senate impeachment trial that starts next week and refuse to hear from relevant witnesses and collect relevant documents.”

“Some of those senators, to be sure, just don’t care. They’ve decided they can live with (both politically and ethically) any revelations that may come down the road — that no one who they care about will hold them accountable for burying important evidence, no matter what it turns out to be. Others may really be so fully inside the conservative information-feedback loop that they sincerely think that Trump is an honest, innocent man being railroaded by partisans; they may not even be aware of the considerable evidence to the contrary.”

“But for anyone else? As I said just 24 hours and a couple rounds of ugly revelations ago: ‘If new ugly details are still emerging, who’s to say that more won’t turn up later?'”