Remember who we are talking about.

Mitch McConnell, according to sources close to him, wants Donald Trump removed from the Republican party. This I don’t doubt.

Trump is a distraction for the Republican party. He’s too divisive to carry out a lasting agenda.He bashed through the walls but now he and his children have announced the Republican party doesn’t belong to the Republicans anymore - it’s the party of Trump (they have literally said this).

No vote for conviction in the senate will take place before Biden is in office because Republicans would have to take responsibility for removing this president from power along with Democrats. He claims he’s not sure how he will vote, but the President has committed impeachable offenses. 

If he waits until Dems have the majority, he gets - the removal of Trump and the possibility of him running in the future - so help in extricating him from the party, and he gets to blame Democrats since they will hold the majority. That will, in his hopes, distract the base and allow them to still consider themselves Republican (rather than shatter into the Trump Party and the Republican party - if that happens, they have no chance in the foreseeable future to control power.

He’s pretending he could lead Republicans to convict the President so he can get the Dems onboard. And I wish I could believe in good intentions, except I remember who we are talking about. 

This is an attempt to get what he wants (control of the Republican party, with the Trump base, more or less intact, without responsibility - he can point at Trump, but more importantly, he can point at hated Democrats. 

This is also why Dems are pushing for this to happen now, while Republicans still hold some political responsibility - Trump won’t be convicted with the current majority unless they have a hand in it.

I think our strategy needs to be clear. We need to make sure either it happens right away, or McConnell’s strategy is clearly known and understood by the Trump base. He cannot succeed if Trump supporters abandon him. 

Yes, Dems will have to make sure the country is safe (at least in this way) once again at political expense. But we don’t need to hand the keys to Mitch willingly to try to carry out legislation in a way that eventually concatenates Trumpian demolition of things like the EPA, The Post Office, Voters rights into law.

Not only do we need to remove Trump, we need to reign in the radical Republicans and help them get back to being true conservatives and moderates. People who have their different agenda but have America, not just themselves, truly at heart.