Lighting the Fuse, Part Three

OVER FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE have been arrested and charged with crimes allegedly committed during the infamous insurrection January 6.  All of them, without exception, are 't'rump supporters who thought they were following the orders of their great leader, Trump. The insurrection was essentially a Trump campaign rally gone crazy out of control. A campaign rally two months after the election.The responsible party was obviously and uniquely Donald Trump who, if justice exists, will face federal criminal charges. Congress will almost certainly come to that conclusion, and will so notify the Attorney General, who will then take the appropriate action. That Trump incited the insurrection is indisputable. there was and is no "deep state" conspiracy to get Trump, to wrongly blame Trump for the Capitol insurrection and loss of life. There are simply the facts, which have all been on national television ad nauseum and will be preserved forever, presumably. Trump's big lie about the election being stolen was the beginning of all this horrible nonsense,  the lie he continues to repeat every day. Amazingly, Trump's election lie and the insurrection do not appear to have dampened Trump's popularity, but rather, to have increased it. This says a great deal about the basic character of the entire Trump movement, and of its members. The big election lie and its acceptance by tens of millions of people has already done great damage to the nation, the insurrection was the ultimate result. The entire Trump movement has become a cobweb of crazy lies, about the election, about the insurrection, (no, Rep. Jordan, it was not just another tour of the Capitol) about conspiracies against Trump, about the very nature of reality. Sanity, decency, and reason require that all the lies surrounding Trump be revealed and accepted as lies, and that his followers rejoin reality. Sanity, decency, and reason impels us to ask whether the evangelical Christian supporters of Trump truly expect to be rewarded for their support of Trump with heavenly salvation, or whether another alternative might seem more likely. Within the Trump movement is a healthy dose of evangelical Christianity, Trump's base. How on Earth anyone can self describe as a follower of both Jesus and Trump is as challenging a question as future historians will contend with.