He Told us Five Years Ago

He told us five years ago his thoughts about what he could do and how his supporters would react. Remember? Just prior to the Iowa caucuses in 2016, candidate Trump stated “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”

His followers listened, and remembered. Yesterday, speaking to the mob in Washington DC, the president upped the ante – “We are going to have to fight much harder….We are walking to the Capitol…. You’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength”.

At the same rally, his personal lawyer, Rudi Giuliani, stated “Let’s have trial by combat”.

Well, the president got his “day of reckoning.” As a result of yesterday’s violence and seditious acts, they both got their wish. There are four dead, and for only the second time since the British torched the Capitol building during the War of 1812, our Capitol, was violated. Property was damaged, property was stolen, and people died.

The world continues.

⁃ The state of Georgia elected two Democrats to the United States Senate, giving Democrats control of the Senate. I have to believe this was a direct repudiation of President Trump and particularly his actions of the last two months.

⁃ Former President George W Bush, Mitt Romney, General Mattis and other prominent Republicans and former Trump staffers have all condemned this president and these actions.

⁃ Several Trump appointees are now resigning.

⁃ Congress certified and Vice President Pence announced the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

I understand for the “true believers” in the Trump camp, yesterday will change nothing in their view of this president, or the election. Nothing ever will. For the rest of us, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, lets look forward to a new day.

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