Well, now we know what Rand Paul has been up to. He was last seen blocking an anti-lynching bill in the Senate and arguing that voting fraud was a problem so, therefore, refusing to acknowledge Biden’s win or dismiss the idea that the election was stolen was the same thing.

As usual his principles are “flexible,” he attacked Fauci at a hearing, exposed others to Covid without telling them he had tested positive, and, now fearing a loss of support to those stalwarts Cruz and Hawley, he has stepped into the breach. He has declared a Senate trial is unconstitutional. As a non-proctoring ophthalmologist, he is well schooled in this area. The prior trial of a resigned Secretary of War is not relevant to this Senator whose love of optics has no bounds.

Apparently, you can attempt to steal an election, encourage seditious actions which result in five deaths and put the entire Congress into physical danger, but if you are no longer in office, the Congress is supposed to shrug and say, “no big deal,” and we can’t do anything about it.

Perhaps this will endear him to the Trump base. It does make every Republican Senator now realize they will have to vote on Trump’s guilt. Clinging to a defeated idea as a justification to ignore such behavior may seem like good party politics, but it must cause some to wonder if this is why they came there in the first place.

The final laugh of course is on them. Trump will attack them with impunity if he feels like it. What they should all do is send a thank you note to Twitter so they can’t have the former President attack them daily. What a sad state of affairs. There may be someone worth selling your soul for, but it sure as hell isn’t Donald Trump.