John Dean: *Insurrectionist Senators are Co-Conspirators and Should Not Sit in Judgment of Trump.*

One of them threatens that Republicans will impeach past Democratic presidents even if they didn't launch a mob to attack the Capitol, if and when Republicans ever take control of Congress.

This is a silly distraction. If Republicans have a majority in the house and 2/3 of the Senate, retroactive impeachment of past presidents (supposing the Constitution permits it — recall that the wrecker's second impeachment occurred while he was still president) would be the least of our worries.

However, it is not just any old distraction. The purpose of maneuvers like these is to suck all ideas of right and wrong, of rights and duties, out of life. With them gone, evil and good look the same, and the only distinction that can be seen is that between the powerful and the weak. They want this because they serve the powerful and they want nothing to impede them from trampling the weak.