Impeachment Quick Hit: Trial Going Wrong Could Mean ‘We Don’t Have a Democracy’

[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC offered long hours of coverage of the first day of the impeachment trial, Tuesday, dissecting every moment of the effort to remove the President. At 3:05 PM, Melissa Murray fretted that making the wrong decisions during this trial could lead to the end of “democracy.” (What didn’t get discussed was whether such grandiose pronouncements on the end of democracy might be overstated.) The ABC News analyst described the main focus this way: “This is the big question. Is the president going to be above the law? That's the whole point of this impeachment hearing.” Murray, contributor Kate Shaw and George Stephanopoulos were discussing witnesses and the various procedural motions. Murray warned of the possibility of democracy ending: