Opinion - Trumpism's Inevitable End

[Donkees]

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There’s a bleak sort of relief in the arrival, after everything, of comeuppance. The question is whether it’s too late, whether the low-grade insurgency that the president has inspired and encouraged will continue to terrorize the country that’s leaving him behind.

“This was an armed violent rebellion at the very seat of government, and the emergency is not over,” Representative Jamie Raskin, the Democrats’ lead impeachment manager, told me. “So we have to use every means at our disposal to reassert the supremacy of constitutional government over chaos and violence.”

The siege of the Capitol wasn’t a departure for Trump, it was an apotheosis. For years, he’s been telling us he wouldn’t accept an election loss. For years, he’s been urging his followers to violence, refusing to condemn their violence, and insinuating that even greater violence was on the way. As he told Breitbart in 2019, in one of his characteristic threats, “I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.

Jan. 6 wasn’t even the first time Trump cheered an armed siege of an American capitol; he did that last spring when gun-toting anti-lockdown activists stormed the Michigan statehouse. Later, after news emerged of a plot to kidnap and publicly execute Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Trump said, “I mean, we’ll have to see if it’s a problem. Right? People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn’t.”

It is shocking that Trump didn’t act when Congress could have faced a mass hostage-taking, or worse. It is not surprising.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. admitted that Trump was exactly who his fiercest critics have always said he was

“Suddenly, all but the most fanatical partisans admitted that Trump was exactly who his fiercest critics have always said he was.”
-- Michelle Goldberg

[abqtommy]

2. I recognize that "tRUMPism" is only the most recent incarnation of a long history of Fascism here

in the U.S. along with other incarnations around the world. I don't think it will ever end but we can
remain vigilant and be prepared to stamp it out when we see it.

[Initech]

3. Yeah it's all fun and games until a violent mob shows up at the capital.

Armed with sub machine guns and pipe bombs threatening to murder the Vice President and other high ranking officials.

Sorry guys, but the MAGA party is over. Pack it up. Playtime is over. The adults are back in charge now.