Trump Tripping

 THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, although its outcome was predetermined, , has benefits nonetheless. It revealed much about the character of Donald Trump, the Republican party, the conservative movement, and Trump's notorious base of support among tens of millions of evangelical Christians That Trump is guilty of incitement to insurrection, and shall forever remain guilty, and shall be so judged by future historians is beyond dispute. NO rational person could dispute the fact that on January 6 Trump incited his mob rally to proceed to the Capitol, and to "fight like hell" for him. the rest, as we say, is history. It turns out that during the violence, Trump, like the rest of the country, was watching on television, and, unlike the rest of the country, or at least the non Trump supporters, was pleases with what he saw, the he totally approved o fit, reveled in it, enjoyed it. that he did nothing to stop it while it was happening is a further indictment, a good reason for Trump's conviction and prolonged incarceration, it not execution. That a good percentage of Trump's supporters, conservative Christian Republicans, continue to believe that the insurrection was warranted by a stolen election is an indictment on their character as well. Trump planned knew by watching the polls that he was likely to lose the election; he knew that as early as early summer, when his approval rating sank, and Biden took a commanding lead in all major polls. All his planning since that time, involving setting the stage for claiming that the election would bre stolen, months before it actually occurred, planning to motivate his many followers to take drastic, extreme, violent action in response to his impending election loss; it all becomes clear now, that the insurrection was the product not of a spontaneous misunderstanding, but of months of planning and preparation among Trump and his most extreme white supremacist supporters. Because of all this, because of all the corruption and criminal activity of which Trump is guilty, no decent American citizen should continue to support him now. He should be universally rejected and condemned by all decent Americans. And yet the Republican Senators, afraid of losing their support base of Trump supporters, have failed to convict him, and Trump's general support remains steady, as somewhere around thirty percent of America. those who still support him after all this have revealed their fundamental lack of morality and decency, and their unfitness for participation in civil society.