What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

Romney, a pretty unflappable guy, seems genuinely shaken tonight. He calls what happened an “insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.”

Yeah, I don’t know, Sarah. I suppose I’ll want to see the final count of objections. Another relevant question, given some of the reporting tonight, is whether roughly a third of Senate Republicans would vote to remove Trump under the 25th Amendment, which, when combined with what would probably be nearly-unanimous support from Democrats for removal, would be enough to get the Senate to the two-thirds required.

I’m still pretty torn on this, Sarah. It feels like two weeks from now we could be back to near-total rhetorical fealty to Trump — or that the break will be big and lasting. Right now, it feels like the momentum is behind the break being lasting. But it’s felt that way at a few moments over the last four years. Of course, now we’re at a point where Trump will be out of office in two weeks either way.