Most US republicans vote to acquit #45 - and thereby condemn themselves, what is left of their party, and the USA's moral standing to hell

So, as expected, #45 has been acquitted, and Pelosi ruled out the 14th Amendment a few days ago so trump can run again in four years time. The other trials might hurt the psychopath, but unless he is in jail in four years time, they basically won't make much of a difference.

The inevitability of this makes the outcome even more frustrating - maybe if they had called witnesses, it would have made the result closer. I consider that an error - and now the whole impeachment is going to empower the psychopathic #45 and his equally psychopathic supporters (the trumpettes). Remember: none of their vitriolic insanity has ANYTHING to be with rationality, so all the rational and self-serving congratulatory assessments will miss the fact that the USA has just given a greenlight to the world's current Mussolini/wannabe Hitler.

I suspect some of 45's marginal supporters would have changed allegiances as a result of this trial, just as seven US Republican Senators did, but the core are going to be re-energised and empowered and FAR more aggressive and bigoted as a result of the acquittal.

There's going to be hell to pay in four years' time in the USA, and hell to pay in the rest of world until then (and some in the USA, with an increase in acts of violent bigotry HIGHLY likely, in my opinion). 

Still, that's the outcome of:

(a) the white supremacist and other racist divisions in the USA;

(b) the gerrymander and stupidity of the US electoral system (which means the 43 psychopath enablers will probably not get any flak or fallout - and almost certainly will keep their elected positions); and

(c) a nation thinking it is better than everyone else when it clearly isn't (largely because of its hyper-individualism). 

The rest of us in the world can rely on a mostly reasonable sort of input from the USA for four years: after that, it is all bets off, and we need to learn to stand on our own two feet. 

PS - from the news: 

• US President Biden, who wants to get away from the distraction, says the simple majority was "evidence of the substance" of the charges (I dispute that that is enough); 
• the blemish on the USA republican party; 
• US Democrats have tried to defend their error in not calling witnesses; 
• trump still has influence; and
  
• "white supremacy won today".