Susan Collins famously said that Trump would learn his lesson from his impeachment. She was absolutely right, and I think her opponents in Maine should admit as much in commercial after commercial in the state of Maine.
For instance, Trump learned the lesson that he can sell weapons to the Saudis if he wants, no matter what Congress may say, because there’s nothing on God’s earth that the United States Senate will do about it.
He’s also learned that he can legislate without needing to go through Congress, which takes such a long time and can be so inconvenient, especially when the whole point of your executive order is to take revenge on a perceived political enemy.
And those are only the lessons we know he’s learned from what’s happened in the past two days! It’s almost impossible to count the number of ways that, over the past few months, he’s proven that he learned his lesson from the impeachment.
Sure, the whole point of politics is to score a victory against your political foes, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be prepared to admit that they were absolutely right when they were. I just hope that the Democrats can find it in their hearts to be humble, and remind the voters of Maine how right Susan was when she made that prediction.