Though it is on hiatus for a bit, the Congressional Jan.6th committee has already had the most important impact we could have hoped for, which is the erosion —however slight — of support for Donald Trump among the Republican Party base.
The indications of Trump’s decline are everywhere. His fundraising is off, crowds at his speeches sometimes boo him, and rivals are lining up to challenge him for the 2024 GOP nomination. The polls show support for him waning.
The leader of the effort to rid us of Trump is not a Democrat but Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming. It appears she has sacrificed her own political career in the process, which should firmly establish her as a heroic figure in American history.
Meanwhile, serious legal problems for Trump continue in New York and Georgia. Although he may escape going to jail as those cases proceed to trial, or settlement, or whatever, his reputation inevitably will be further damaged.
Demagogues rarely go down without a fight. So we can expect Trump to keep posturing and threatening to destroy anyone who angers him, and he won’t be gone until he is really gone, but bullies eventually succumb to their own excesses.
That’s why I am cautiously optimistic that one fine day we will be rid of him for good. Then we will have to deal with the copy-cats, who have already appeared by the dozens.
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