“So he’s feeling trapped, he’s feeling desperate … increasingly enraged.”

they are complicit,” she said. “When they stoke and contribute to hate speech, they are complicit.”

To Mary Trump, the manner of her uncle’s defeat helped to set the stage for the toxicity she presciently said in November would happen.

Republicans in the Senate and House races outperformed him, enlarging their minority in the House and holding their Senate majority until Georgia’s two elections this month tipped the Senate balance to Democrats.

His defeat Nov. 3 was on him, not the party. “So he also doesn’t have anybody else to blame,” his niece said. “So I think that he is probably in a position that nobody can help him out of emotionally and psychologically, which is going to make it worse for the rest of us.” Worse came.

Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, called the attack Wednesday the “logical conclusion to extremism and hate going unchecked” during Trump’s presidency.

“If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention,” said Amy Spitalnick of Integrity First, a civil rights group engaged in lawsuits over the 2017 Charlottesville violence.

Thursday night, Trump took a stab at a unifying message, after months of provocation, saying in a video “this moment calls for healing and reconciliation.”

But Friday he was back to tending “his great American Patriots” and demanding they be treated fairly, and he said he won’t go to Biden’s inauguration.

He acknowledged his presidency was ending, but did not – could not, may never – acknowledge defeat.

For all of the insulting nicknames he’s tagged on his political foes – sleepy, shifty, cryin’, corrupt, crazy, little, braindead, wacky, pencil neck, low-IQ, watermelon head, dummy, deranged, sick puppy, low energy – none was meant to sting more than “loser.” And nothing, it seems, stung more than when the loser was him.