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Are We Ready for Trump 2.0?

After his acquittal in the Senate, the president may double down on the same behavior that led to his impeachment in the first place.
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President Donald Trump has survived the latest and most serious crisis of his own making. As ever, he seems to have learned nothing from the ordeal.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted today to keep Trump in office. Breaking with his party, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah cast the lone Republican vote convicting Trump of one of the two impeachment articles—abuse of power. The president comes out of the ordeal emboldened, with a free hand to push the boundaries of executive propriety even further.

[Read: How Mitt Romney decided]

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