pearl clutching scale me thinks.

I'm trying to understand how severe her concern was.

She’s concerned but needs more information to get to a 7 or 8. Thune will probably talk her down to a level 3 furrow.

whether she thinks Trump "has learned his lesson." She said this after voting against his removal from office. Trump, she said, has "learned his lesson" about obeying the law, not browbeating foreign governments into manufacturing dirt on his opponents, not inciting a mob to murder his own vice president and the Speaker of the House, and so on and so forth...

Please, Senator Collins, tell us which lessons Trump has learned, lessons that justified you voting him not guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors?

thanks to Republicans who would rather defend a life-long criminal than lose an election.

What other lesson could he have learmed, given his obvious guilt and how the GOP, Collins among them, let him skate to commit other crimes?

Is that how she shows her “concern” these days?

so I take his statements to be signalling, tangible descriptions of intent

...and everything after it. And it would've sent the right message.