“Who could have seen this coming? Everyone? Even dummies like me. This is the most shocking, most tragic, least surprising thing I’ve ever seen.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
And the wildest part is these MAGA marchers think Donald Trump cares about them. He doesn’t care about you. He doesn’t care about your wife or your job or your health care or the air you breathe, the water you drink. He cares about himself. And only about himself. Unless you were pushing a lawn mower, he wouldn’t let you into his golf club. He’d roll his limo right over you to get a Chick-fil-A sandwich.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
The only important consequence of this moronic, pitchfork crowd storming the capitol, besides this being the last (I hope) of a series of Trump-related national embarrassments, is that it will make it politically easier to prosecute Trump for his many crimes. He is more vulnerable today than he was on Tuesday. It was scary for those involved, but I think it's a net positive.
Any idea that he's being treated unfairly by the media or the Democrats is no longer tenable by naive but decent Americans. He finally crossed a line and fully revealed his antipathy to democracy, decency, sanity. The Democrats' rationale for impeachment has proved completely accurate, and their warning that if he isn't stopped he'lll do worse has proved true.
Republicans like Susan Collins, Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders who knew better are proved to be the feckless enablers most of us knew they were for not standing up to him. I hope this finally moves them to a mood of "enough" and to act finally to push back against all the lies and liars.
Hawley and Cruz come out of this looking like the cynical snakes that they are.
UPDATE: David Frum wrote last night--
Schedule an impeachment vote for this very night. Stay ’til dawn. Do whatever is necessary. Avert any potential for martial law. Deny Trump command of the military; withdraw the nuclear codes. Don’t wait until the next crossed red line, until the next smashed barrier, until the next putsch attempt. Install Mike Pence right away as the 46th president and work with him to manage the transition on January 20 to Joe Biden as the 47th. Bar Trump from ever again holding office—and get ready to prosecute him for his crimes on January 21.
Act now. And everyone who acts now—even those who were most in the wrong until now—can share the credit and recognition as a protector of the Constitution. There is no time for delay.
Remove this treasonous president. Invite his own party to join the effort to remove him now, or to share now and forever Trump’s guilt.
Not likely to happen even though I agree completely that it should. But I think there are a lot more people today who would otherwise not think it was necessary to hold Trump accountable. It was more likely before yesterday that the political establishment would just say "Bygones", and "Let's move forward". There will be a bi-partisan effort to support throwing the book at Trump now, and for that I'm grateful to Trump for attempting this Keystone Kops coup. It was very clarifying.