The national narrators of our politics love brandishing the word “historic” to describe the Trump impeachment process. But by now, it feels unexceptional, more like Chapter 27 of the Same Old Saga. In their overdramatic Trump narrative, the president is always a democracy-killing villain who is about to get his comeuppance. In the first week of trial coverage, Nicholas Fondacaro of the MRC found the evening newscasts were completely negative toward the Trump defense team, and touted the House managers.