Elizabeth Drew: A little impeachment might go a long way

By adopting narrow grounds for impeaching the president, Pelosi and House members wanted simple charges they could easily explain to constituents, writes Elizabeth Drew

Much as he mocked the process for months, US president Donald Trump very much did not want to be impeached. No president does; it’s an ineradicable stain on their record. And Trump has just about never been called to account. He was more or less in a rage for weeks as the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives moved forward, and his mood didn’t improve in the immediate aftermath of his becoming the third president in the history of the US to be impeached.