So a lot to unpack with the "acquittal" and the progressives' apparent belief that this is the "end" of democracy.  Firstly, the Heir doesn't believe there was a real acquittal, because there wasn't a real trial to begin with.  He's not sure what the exact vanilla type-A bureaucratic term is, but it wasn't a trial if you didn't have witnesses or evidence.  He's one of the 75% who said you needed witnesses and evidence.  Secondly, this whole democracy thing, and how democracy is being "threatened."  The progressives apparently don't want to see it, but the Heir sees very nature of democracy as *being* threatened.  Here's what the Heir points out: When you had Camelot with JFK and stuff, why didn't the progressives denounce Camelot as a threat to democracy?  What?  Just because it was their guy?  Because Camelot is a form of royalization of the Presidency, and the Founders would have had a coronary if they knew there was going to be Camelot.  You had Benjamin Franklin as saying we have a democracy if we can keep it.  No-one ever has said "if we can keep it" after Benjamin Franklin died except to quote the guy.  And then there's eternal vigilance, which is an inherent acknowledgment that democracy is *always* threatened, no matter if it's Trump or Funny Named Skinny Kid or Impulsive, or the Heir's current beneficiary of support, Elizabeth Warren.  If we had a Warren Administration, the Heir still sees democracy as being threatened, no matter how much Warren is able to bring big tech to its knees and get them to eat their one-thing-should-replace-another forced obsolescence marketing talk.  And what else?  Oh yeah, and the Heir thinks Trump's reprise of "total exoneration" and "acquitted forever" is BS and Trump knows it's BS.  The Heir wants the activists to start using the hash tag #ImpeachedForeverAcquittedNever.  Come on, activists, get with the program!

"Remember what David McCollough said about the Jeffersons and the Madisons: that they never gave up.  Never did *they* say, oh it's the end of democracy.  No matter how they fell on their faces, they never gave up.  That's the lesson we got to keep taking out of history."