How Trump survived impeachment

WASHINGTON — Nothing has united the modern Democratic Party like the desire to remove Donald Trump from the Oval Office. It is a desire shared by moderates and progressives alike, from a California that never quite managed to secede from the union to a New York that has had to grapple with the fact that Trump is one of its own. Briefly, after the results from Nov. 8, 2016, came in, there was some flickering hope that “faithless electors” would keep the Electoral College from certifying his victory. But that effort came to naught. Instead, the anti-Trump resistance began planning on how to make the Trump’s stay in Washington as brief as possible. “The campaign to impeach President Trump...