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The Trump presidency was a test of Republican attitudes toward democracy.
Time and again, the president abused his authority in ways that would have been unthinkable under previous presidents.
Time and again, members of Congress, state party leaders, right-wing media stars, and rank-and-file voters looked the other way
— or even cheered him on.

Two NBC polls taken about a year apart show that support for Trump’s first and second impeachment among Republicans remained exactly the same among Republicans:
8 percent.

Trump was impeached the first time because he tried to interfere with the integrity of the 2020 presidential election
— attempting to strong-arm the Ukrainian president into opening up a bogus investigation into Joe Biden.
Trump was impeached the second time because he ginned up a mob to attack the Capitol to disrupt the counting of the votes from the Electoral College.
And yet in both cases, the percentage of Republicans who supported impeaching him was the same
— a measly 8 percent.
There’s just very little popular appetite in the GOP for punishing anti-democratic excesses by Trump, regardless of the circumstances.