"... quite what the Democrats thought was going to happen, I cannot imagine."
I assume the Democrats knew there was a slim chance of convicting Trump and the focus was on damaging his reputation as much as possible, with the aim of making the Republican party uncomfortable with continuing to support him, or perhaps even to encourage those of the political right to form a new party.
A new political party, whether of the centre-right who wish to dissociate itself from Trump, or of the far-right hard-core Trumpists, would be the death-blow to any meaningful opposition to the Democrats.
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