How Do You Stop People From Being Wrong All the Time?

It’s going to be hard to fix anything until we fix this

Will Leitch
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4 min readJan 26, 2021

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Sen. John Cornyn and his wife Sandy Cornyn participate in a mock swearing-in ceremony for the 117th Congress. Photo: Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images

On Monday afternoon, Sen. John Cornyn, a grown human being for whom nearly 6 million Texans voted to represent them as their Senator just last November, tweeted this:

Now, we can all argue about whether or not Donald Trump should be impeached, or how his impeachment trial should be run, or who should be in charge of it. There are debates to be had about that, to be had about everything.

But there are at least two sides to this specific debate: Should a sitting senator preside over an impeachment trial of a former federal official? Or should a sitting senator not preside over such a trial? This strikes me as a fair question. It’s a debate! Let’s take sides!

But that is not what Cornyn is doing. Cornyn is just being wrong. Factually wrong, stupidly wrong, flat-plainly wrong.

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Will Leitch
Will Leitch

Written by Will Leitch

Author seven books, including “How Lucky” "The Time Has Come" and "Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride." NYMag/MLB. Founder Deadspin. https://williamfleitch.substack.com