Cleanup on Aisle America

As the Biden administration works to control the pandemic and other inherited messes, Donald Trump once again takes center stage as his second impeachment trial begins

- BRIAN KAREM

For more than two weeks, I enjoyed not hearing one word from former President Donald Trump.

Mornings were more peaceful without his seditious and angry tweets. My coffee went down much easier. The nation was moving forward, toward some semblance of constitutional normalcy.

All that came crashing down on Tuesday as the Senate began the second impeachment trial of a man who still refuses to acknowledge that he is a former president.

Donald Trump continues to be the all-consuming chaotic mess that dominated the United States for four of the darkest years of our Republic. On Tuesday we revisited the national nightmare.

Representative Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat and lead manager of the second Trump impeachment trial, outlined the stakes for our country. Trump, Raskin said in his opening remarks, may not have known much about the framers of the Constitution, “but they certainly knew a lot about him.”