Impeachment - well, that's it for this round, at least

As expected, President Trump survived his impeachment experience, due to the apparent collusion of his party members in the Senate.  Despite a few of them making mouth-noises about how they didn't need to hear any additional testimony or gather any further evidence because they had ample proof that he did what he was accused of, they still voted to acquit him in near-lockstep along party lines.  The one exception, on one of the counts against Trump, was Mitt Romney, making him one of the few individuals at the national level of the Republican party who appears to have any semblance of a moral commitment to country above party, or even to holding their own oaths sacred.

I don't recall if I've ever publicly stated this before, but this is ample illustration of the state of decay the Republican party has fallen to, at least at the national level.  If you want to call yourself a Republican at this point, don't make any bones about it being for moral reasons, since they've demonstrated just how much morality weighs in their calculus for taking and keeping power.  Simply put, if I see somebody claiming to be a Republican on any ballot from here on out, I'm considering that a disqualifying condition... not to say that I'll always vote Democrat, because they have their own issues and, occasionally, somebody comes along who belongs to neither party yet is actually sane, but voting Republican while I have another choice is right out.