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Four Years Ago, He Led Us Into the Darkness
For 187 minutes, Trump gleefully watched as thousands of misinformed traitors proved to the world just how far America had sunk in the era of Internet 2.0 and Fox News. The culmination of 40 years of Reaganism, with its inherent racism, and focus on making the rich richer and the rest of us participants in a massive scrum for the scraps tossed under the table, led us to January 6th, 2020.
For 187 minutes, Trump rejected calls to demand the rabid losers stand down, drank Coke after Coke, and giggled in a mist of orange fart dust. When he finally called for them to go home, he called the criminals patriots and told them how much he loved them. They all had one quality that made them worthy of his love: They adored him. Trump would be tried by a House Select Committee led by a Republican — one of two brave enough to protect the U.S. Constitution — and disgraced by only the facts of that day, he would wallow in self-inflicted misery, lost among boxes of stolen, national secrets privy only to the eyes of a president, at his Florida hideaway.
He wallowed, and the rest of us took a deep breath and reveled in how nice it was to be in a semi-post-Trump world. “Semi,” however, proved not to be enough. The lifeline thrown to him by virtually every…
