Donald Trump will will be America’s 47th president.
Let that sink in.
The American people have returned this unfit man to power. In the end, nothing mattered. Not the sexual abuse, the fraud, the lies or the felonies. Not the bigotry of his campaign; not insults, not threats. In the most graphic terms imaginable, the American people were warned of the danger. His previously loyal vice president refused to endorse him; his top general called him a “total fascist”; some of his closest aides and Cabinet members described in detail his erratic character and his indifference to the Constitution.
He incited a violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol. And it didn’t matter. It didn’t matter that a jury of his peers found him liable for sexually abusing a woman; and it didn’t matter that he had called for terminating rules found in the Constitution to restore him to power. And it didn’t matter when he lied about migrants eating cats and dogs; or called the United States a “garbage can for the world.”
And the hardest part is realizing that our fellow Americans saw all of that; watched all of that; listened to all of that, and still said, “Yes, that’s what we want.”
It’s Morning Again in America - just not one that I ever thought I would wakeup to in my lifetime.