No, actually you agree that you'll be perfectly okay when a crooked and corrupt Democratic POTUS uses what they've learned to get away with just about anything. Ponder that as you celebrate Trump's acquittal because there will be more acquittals to come in the future, but not the kind you might like.
From this night forward, when a president commits a crime or other act against the Constitution, they will be able to defy Congress and just circle the wagons, refuse to hand over anything and get all their party loyalists to circle the wagons. And with Democrats also in charge of both houses in Congress, who knows what they might get away with.
'defy Congress'? Since when is the Executive Branch of the federal government subjective to the Legislative Branch of the federal government? My US civics education always stated that those two branches of government were co-equal branches of government along with the third, the Judicial Branch. Now, if there's a dispute between the Executive and the Legislative Branch, it is the third branch that hears the case and settles the dispute. Such is the regular established order, established legal precedence. Why is the House majority unwilling to live by them? Why is the House majority unable to live by them?
Animus at losing a presidential election nor hatred of a president is insufficient reason to cast asunder regular established order and established legal precedence. If allowed to ignore these, what else will the House Majority party demand be ignored in their favor? What other rules of law will they demand to be ignored in their ceaseless quest for political power? Everything? 'Just give us all the political power and everything will be all right'? :lamo Not just NO! Oh Hell No!
In the present case, the 1/2 of the Legislative Branch didn't bother with seeking a resolution to the dispute, i.e. the Executive Branch handing over nothing and asserting Executive Privilege (which is their right to do so, by the way), nor did the House majority bother with including actual charges raising to impeachable offenses in their articles of impeachment, nor bother with making the impeachment resolution bi-partisan. :shrug: Seems the House majority did barely 1/2 the work required of them for a successful impeachment proceeding.
I wouldn't celebrate Trump's acquittal just because he was acquitted. I would celebrate that the Constitution was upheld. I'd celebrate that a politically driven, politically motivated impeachment that didn't bother to go through the established dispute resolution process, that didn't bother to include impeachable offenses in their articles of impeachment, one that was strictly by party lines, didn't succeed in a conviction. I'd celebrate that the use of impeachment as a political weapon was defeated.
You assert that 'there will be more acquittals to come in the future'. It depends if the House majority continue to bring impeachments with scant evidence and scant impeachable charges. If they do, then further acquittals would be well justified. If the House majority do bring an impeachment with impeachable changes and solid evidence to back them, then an acquittal is most certainly not appropriate.
Should we find ourselves with an opposition majority in both houses of congress, I would hope that the same requirements of impeachable offenses, solid evidence, and bi-partisan support of the impeachment would hold. We've seen how divisive a party line impeachment in only the House has worsened the nation, can you imagine how much worse it would be if it were the case in both houses of congress upheld impeachment by party line vote with present non-impeachable offenses and lacking of compelling evidence?
