"Well, how did We get here?"

 If you have ever served on a jury or even went to jury duty and were never picked you know the impeachment process isn't like anything you might experience in a criminal trial or even a civil trial where the standard of proof isn't beyond a reasonable doubt.

The last four years have been a republican problem and it has been reported the the senior senator from the State of Kentucky and leader of fifty republican senators has thrown in the towel and called it a vote of conscience.  And even that is nebulous as state parties are trying to sanction republicans who wish to separate themselves from the former president. 

There are without a doubt folks that would vote for the former president again or listen to him on AM radio and so it goes.  Just because you can doesn't mean you  should or will.  If you think the media is biased, try a variety of sources.

The larger question is a longer term response to what folks experienced over the last thirteen years. I am including two terms of the Obama Administration because legislating, governing, and even judiciary appointments were weaponized beyond anything I could have imagined.  Tit for tat pretty much made even what might be called "ministerial" aspects of administration problematic.  Imagine/remember the Senator shutting down the government and debt ceiling posturing?

The Affordable Care Act needed budget reconciliation to pass, sixty votes in the Senate plus the majority leader to pass legislation most of the time and the result has been executive orders, the repeal of executive orders, another set of executive orders and folks bitching about golf games while those in office do little more than raise campaign funds to discourage others from running against them or currying party favor and placing federalist judges on the bench with lifetime appointments.  The Hastert Rule, or the threat of a filibuster too often prevents anything getting done.

The second Senate Impeachment Trial won't even honestly deal with the preponderance of the evidence that resulted in 535 representatives, their staffs and the vice president being hustled into hiding for their lives, the death of a Capitol Police Officer because a former president decided to not concede in the results of an election he lost after admitting he might not accept the results if he lost as an integral part of his reelection campaign and a subsequent campaign which seems to continue to this day.