Ross Douthat: Why Mitch McConnell might move to convict Trump

The day before the Capitol Hill riot, Jonathan Last of The Bulwark wrote a dark valediction for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s attempts to “manage, contain and outlast Donald Trump.”As a master of institutional power, McConnell probably believed that he had the upper hand over Trump, because only institutional power can actually turn political passions into policy and law.But what if, Last wrote, your voters “don’t really care about policy outcomes anymore?” Well, &ld