To the Editor:

Re “Split Senate Clears Trump on Each Count in Finale of a Bitter Impeachment Battle” (front page, Feb. 6):

Well, it’s finally over, and now come the analyses and the blowback from the White House. And what was accomplished by the impeachment effort? A lot, I think. Some good, some bad.

For one thing, the House Democratic leaders reminded us of who we are and what we are. Representative Adam Schiff’s “Enough!” should echo through campaign ads all across the nation this fall.

The most consequential accomplishment of the impeachment effort, I think, is that it did exactly what President Trump tried to do by pressuring the president of Ukraine. It dragged Joe Biden’s name through the mud, and that helps explain Mr. Biden’s poor showing in Iowa. So Mr. Trump seems to have a clear shot at being re-elected.

But there’s a silver lining. At least some of the G.O.P. members of Congress who live in fear of Mr. Trump and who turned their backs on the Constitution will not be returning to Washington, and we’re likely to see Democratic majorities elected in both the House and the Senate.