Congratulations, President Trump! It took a while but you’ve finally achieved the American carnage that you purported to descry in your inaugural address four years ago. It would be hard to think of a more symbolically apt end to your presidency.
Trump’s shameful, revolting and tawdry taped message late on Wednesday urging his supporters to disband devoted more urgency to calling the election a fraud than condemning their storming of the US Capitol. All that was missing was the claim that there are good people on both sides.
Trump has already failed. He is no 18th Brumaire but a tinpot authoritarian
Trump long ago forfeited any claim to dignity. The idea that he was ever capable of acting as president was the central fiction of his presidency, which is now fully enveloped in the moral squalor that he has always embraced. Trump isn’t the commander-in-chief. Instead, he is a defeated commander reluctantly ordering his motley irregulars to disperse.
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