Why Trump Supporters Aren’t Protesting in the Streets Over Impeachment

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) delivers remarks alongside House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) following the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Donald Trump in Washington on Dec. 18, 2019. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

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Something very strange just happened—something unparalleled in American history.

A president of the United States was impeached, for only the third time in history, and hardly anyone outside the D.C.-Beltway bubble was paying attention or cared about it.