The "new" narrative from the left?

Have liberal anonymous sources changed their minds?

So pretty much from the time that it became apparently that Pelosi and gang would misuse their power of impeachment a second time, the "sources to be" have determined that there as an ever-increasing group of GOP Senators who were planning on voting guilty in order to purge Trump from the GOP. These sources had everything from evidence of behind the scenes conspiracies, to secret statements being leaked to CNN, and everything in between. In the minds of these liberal political pundits, the Senate was almost certain to find Trump guilty, which would then provide a second vote to ban him from running for public office again.

This was always nonsense. I stated as much from the start.

Now, apparently these same sources are changing their tune. Apparently they are now hearing (or claiming to hear) that a bunch of GOP Senators really really want to vote to find Trump guilty, but are "under pressure" from powerful pro-Trump forces to acquit him all the same. According to these sources, it now appears unlikely that Trump will be found guilty, based on an equally dishonest and untrue concept that Republican Senators are now unwilling to vote their conscience.

This, of course, is just as nonsensical as the first rumor mill.

The truth is that there has always been a small faction of anti-Trumpers who became largely marginalized as Trump evolved as President.  If anyone was talking to CNN, it wasn't mainstream Republicans. It was those ostracized and disgruntled anti-Trumpers making shit up. What likely happened is that these anti-Trumpers felt suddenly empowered after Trump's election defeat, probably thought that Capital riots provided them with an opening, and made some poor assumptions about what the mainstream Republicans were thinking or what they were going to do.

But if you look at what happened to Liz Cheney when she voted to impeach Trump, or even what happened to Mitch McConnell back in Kentucky when he simply provided a fairly negative statement about the President, it's fairly obvious that there really isn't the sort of anti-Trump sentiment that some might believe there is (or should be) within the mainstream portions of the Party.

So what about the impeachment trial itself and everyone voting their conscience?

Let's be clear.

The idea that the Capital riot amounted to a plan to take over the country and that Trump was pulling the strings is absurd at it's core. That is just an undeniable fact to anyone not afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Whether you believe that what the President did or didn't do in the lead up to the riot was not appropriate, his behavior is a long ways from the allegations that he was leading an armed coup against the Federal Government. 

The political play here seems to be similar to the first impeachment. Find something that you believe that the President did that was inappropriate. Define it as a horrible crime against the fabric of our nation, and then challenge that everyone who doesn't agree with your description as akin to believing he did nothing wrong. The argument is logical fallacies wrapped around logical fallacies.

That didn't work the first time and it won't work the second time either.