In the years to come, there will be historians who focus solely on the forty-eight hours between January 6th and 7th. One will note that shortly after Stacey Abrams handed Georgia to the democrats thus avoiding another two years of Mitch McConnell’s minority tyranny that shook the very foundation of our democracy that the fever Trump sickened so many right-wing extremists with, finally broke after the deaths of four of his supporters and one Capitol Hill police officer who was beaten to death by the terrorists he incited to commit open insurrection.

The more erudite historian will note that politics to that point hadn’t been as interesting since Napoleon invaded Moscow which in hindsight was a brazen act of a hubris-crazed madman who paid dearly for that mistake at Waterloo.

Trump and his devotees lacked the genius of Napoleon but not the hubris that kept Republicans intoxicated with the power of holding all three branches of government. Napoleon’s fatal mistake was thinking he could keep his army mobile in the Moscow winter.

When the history of Trump is written, his fatal mistake will be noted as running for the presidency while harnessing the lunacy and stupidity of the Republican base sick from the poison Rupert Murdoch dripped into their feeble minds for twenty years. In fairness to Trump, he wasn’t ever the problem. He was the result of the problem that Murdoch created with malice aforethought when Roy Cohn…