The sad legacy of Trump
Wednesday was a sad day for America.
We watched the mob violence and lawlessness in Washington with a tear in our eye.
We saw images of the Capitol stormed by hundreds of yahoos who fought with police, broke windows and forced the evacuation of a session of the U.S. Congress. At least five died in the chaos.
Wednesday was also a very sad day for conservatives, the Republican Party and tens of millions of American citizens who voted to reelect President Trump for all the right reasons.
But it was a really terrible day for Donald Trump.
The shocking events in Washington on Wednesday — which he provoked with his stubborn insistence he had been robbed by the systemic cheating of Democrats — have soiled his legacy forever.
And please, before I continue, I don’t want you Trump supporters out there to tweet at me with any of that “What about the violent BLM and Antifa riots in our cities all summer?” crap.
Those destructive and deadly riots by leftists were wrong and so was Wednesday’s riot by Trump people in D.C.
It’s not brain surgery. Trump could have prevented Wednesday’s national embarrassment and saved Republicans from disaster, but his ego and his narcissism got the better of him.
It a shame. It could have been much different for the president.
He’s still a hero to millions of Flyover Americans and still a major political player. But the country he wanted to make great again is going to pay the ultimate price for his character flaws.
With the federal government virtually turned into a one-party socialist state, the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi troika will quickly flush away or turn around all the good things Trump did.
Unfortunately, it will be years before conservatives and the Republican Party can recover from the damage Trump has wrought just since Nov. 3.
In the meantime, I ask all conservatives and Trump supporters — all 74,222,958 of you — to please stop thinking of Donald Trump as the equal of Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan’s legacy was tearing down the Berlin Wall. Donald Trump’s legacy is going to be tearing down the Capitol. So sad.