Former FBI Director James Comey said America has weathered dark times in the past, which proves it can survive President Trump being acquitted by the Senate.

“When I was a little kid, the United States seemed to be coming apart,” Comey, 59, wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Post.

Comey cited the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as the protests against the Vietnam War and desegregation.

“War and death and disorder dominated the news,” he wrote. “There is a natural human tendency to think we live in the hardest times, that our challenges are uniquely difficult.”

He continued, “When I was a kid, the United States didn’t come apart. It won’t now.”

Comey, who has warned that the president is damaging the country, said he does not believe that democracy in the U.S. is dying, even if Trump remains in charge.

In September, the former FBI official advised against impeaching Trump as support for it grew in the Democratic-led House. Comey, who was fired by Trump in May 2017, said Trump’s potential removal from office would let voters “off the hook” in the upcoming presidential election.

“We need an inflection point. Impeachment would deprive us of that. We need to show what we stand for,” he said.

The Republican-led Senate is poised to acquit Trump next week.