Wow, Adam Schiff did a great job in Marathon Impeachment.

Schiff, one of the managers the House sent to handle the impeachment trial in the Senate, has been the rock star of the proceedings. (O.K., suggesting this is a rocking experience would be … overstatement. But you get the idea.)

On Wednesday, Schiff spoke for nearly two and a half hours, nonstop, to open the Democrats’ case. Not a record, but really long, even for a politician. Donald Trump took up just a little over two hours at his impeachment-day rally, when he had enough time to suggest that the late Congressman John Dingell went to hell and to call Schiff “not exactly the best-looking guy we’ve ever seen.”

Schiff’s mission was to take the Senate — and better yet, the American public — through Trump’s impeachable behavior, step by step. It’s certainly an action-packed story, and the Democrats have the advantage of audiovisual aids. So much easier to keep the audience’s interest when you’ve got the title character on tape, saying stuff like, “I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”

Schiff elevated the saga with a lot of American history. He mentioned the founding fathers 28 times in the first 15 minutes. On this front, it doesn’t seem as if he’s going to get much competition. Earlier, when Republicans had a chance to talk, the founders only came up a handful of times, once in a quote from Chuck Schumer.