Jonah Goldberg: For Democrats, a Senate conviction of Trump isn’t the point

The debate over whether to hold Donald Trump accountable for his role in the events that led to the siege of the U.S. Capitol has slipped into partisan farce.

Let me say up front I think it’s an open-and-shut case that Trump committed numerous impeachable acts, and in a healthy republic, any self-respecting Congress would have moved within hours of the assault to impeach, try and convict him.

Over the 63 days between Election Day and the siege, Trump manufactured