I believe the Capital mob Wednesday was the last thrashing of a dying, cornered animal. What we are seeing now in the firings and the resignations and the stern denunciations from those who were previously throwing gasoline on the fire, AND Trump’s pathetic teleprompter speech Thursday night, is the utter implosion of the entire Trump project. "everyone knows this was a horrible mistake.” (from the article below.)
This has always been about power - the power they had and desperately controlled; our power as a movement, lack of power in government, and furious fight to regain it. Our “blue wave/tsunami” began, literally, the day after the inauguration in 2016, crested in the takeover of the House in 2018, and has just culminated in the one-two punch of the presidential and Senate wins. That total win was cemented, officially, yesterday in the midst and then aftermath of the riot. We did it. We got it all back. They saw it coming and fought tooth and nail to somehow beat it back. But they lost. The explosion of rage and destruction we witnessed was, ultimately, impotent. It could never succeed and it did not succeed. It was the desperate lashing out of a cornered, dying animal. I know it was ugly and upsetting and scary, but that’s what a dying animal looks like. It’s not pretty.
We can rightfully jeer at those desperately trying to cover themselves in any kind of glory by mouthing platitudes, belatedly denouncing Trump for this “bridge too far,” and/or resigning. Even Trump himself, seeing the walls close in, tried to weasel out of responsibility, in his speech late Thursday, for what everyone knows was a horror and a despicable violation - just too much. He also threw his followers under the bus, ridiculously claiming to abhor the violence and desecration. I have no idea how that lands with them. They probably dismiss it somehow.
So he'll be gone soon and a new day will truly begin. Our great task now is to deliver the goods. Bernie has it exactly right: a massive rescue package, infrastructure, jobs, a la FDR and of course an effective Covid response. And from day one, organize for the next electoral battle. KEEP and expand power.
Honestly, I don’t much care if he’s impeached or 25thed or even prosecuted after he leaves office. When you have cancer and it gets cut out of your body, the removed tumor goes in the garbage. You don’t get to prosecute it, as much as you might want to, for fucking up your life. You just move on, glad to finally be cancer free.
Mind you, I’m not saying I don’t WANT all of those things to happen to him. In the next few years he will almost certainly be hounded relentlessly by legal authorities, creditors, and the tax man and it will be a good thing, even if he manages to wiggle out of it, if for no other reason than it will keep him tied up and tied down. A squirming Gulliver, fighting his ropes, allowing him less bandwidth to make trouble.
Celebrate.