Rep. Adam Kinzinger wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post that is aimed at an audience of exactly fifty readers; Senate Republicans. The GOP Representative from Illinois has a message for those who have the power to convict Donald Trump: Kinzinger writes:
Convicting Donald Trump is necessary to save America from going further down a sad, dangerous road.
Kinzinger has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump since November when the former president falsely claimed election fraud. He was one of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Now he is laying out the case as to why he is compelling Senators to do the same:
I say this as a lifelong Republican who voted to impeach Trump last month. Virtually all my colleagues on the right side of the aisle took the opposite path. Most felt it was a waste of time — political theater that distracted from bigger issues. The overwhelming majority of Senate Republicans appear to feel the same way about conviction.
But this isn’t a waste of time. It’s a matter of accountability. If the GOP doesn’t take a stand, the chaos of the past few months, and the past four years, could quickly return. The future of our party and our country depends on confronting what happened — so it doesn’t happen again.