re: #307 KGxvi

1. They honestly didn’t believe it was an act worthy of removal from office
2. They thought Pence would (somehow) be worse for the country
3. They were so afraid of his base turning on them in the primaries that they put their own re-election concerns above the nation’s interests (forgetting that they still have general elections to win and/or that the base may be different in 2 or 4 years anyway)
4. The Susan Collins option: they were really stupid enough to believe that Trump learned his lesson and would be better after impeachment

5. Through a couple layers of moral gauze, they are all complicit in his crimes.