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In the category of:  System failure

Republicans’ vote against Trump’s impeachment reveals a broken system — and a democracy at real risk of failure.

President Donald Trump deserved to be impeached over his conduct in the Ukraine affair. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did the right thing by pushing for an impeachment vote, and Democrats (all but a handful of them) did the right thing by voting to impeach.

But not a single Republican did. And the GOP’s willingness to back the president to the hilt, in spite of clear and obvious evidence of abuses of power, speaks to an urgent threat to American democracy: Our constitutional system is ill-equipped to withstand extreme polarization.

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In the category of:  Uncle Joe

Why Biden’s Retro Inner Circle Is Succeeding So Far

In 2019, there’s a tiny group of Democrats who believe the party hasn’t lurched leftward. Oh, and their boss happens to be winning the primary.

Since the start of Biden’s campaign, he’s relied on a core group of half a dozen people. Like any presidential campaign, Biden’s is sprawling—more than 400 people across the country—and it includes key advisers with ideological and racial diversity and is outfitted with all the accoutrements of a modern enterprise. But when the upper echelons of the Biden operation assemble at campaign headquarters in Philadelphia’s Center City, the group looks a lot like Biden: old and white and with long experience in Democratic party battles of a bygone era.

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In the category of:  House rules

Mitch McConnell Blasts Impeachment As ‘Rushed’ And ‘Unfair’

The Republican senator accused Nancy Pelosi of being afraid to send “their shoddy work product to the Senate.”