New Delhi, April 8 -- The ceasefire announcement did little to quiet the storm inside Washington. Even as diplomats scrambled to hold the fragile agreement together, Democratic lawmakers were flooding social media with calls for Trump's impeachment, the invocation of the 25th Amendment, or both- arguing that a president who had threatened to wipe out an entire civilisation had demonstrated, beyond any reasonable doubt, that he was unfit to hold office.

Senior senators, House committee members, individual congresswomen and congressmen, a former vice president, and at least one state governor all joined the chorus seeking Trump's impeachement within hours of one another.

Few voices carried more force than that of Congresswoman Alexandria ...