Now that it's over

Bronze Age Mantis casts judgement.

I'll have to look up Cola di Rienzi because I'd not heard of him. This despite that he lived during the Avignon era - or maybe because, given that he lived in a then-irrelevant Rome.

Donald John Trump was about a 7/10 President served by 2/10 men... up until the New Year 2020. It was after his impeachment that he became a post-Watergate Nixon. Not for the reason under which the Swamp impeached him; but for his truly impeachable weakness throughout the CoVID crisis and then the "BLM" hysteria. For whatever reason he further ignored investigations on vote-tallies over the summer, including one by CNN on the Dominion machines in... Georgia.

Trump may have ended up a victim of his own vanity. For three years, his vanity served him well - and us. He stubbornly refused bad advice, and then he resisted an evil and illegal impeachment process. By doing what the Washington élite didn't want, more by not doing what they wanted; he instinctively did much good. But 2020 was a time to follow élite opinion, at least where it coïncided with epidemiology (I am not including the CDC here). Facts, as they say, do not care about your vanity.

From what I see on Matt Drudge, about now is when people get tracked down and arrested. I am not here to assure you that Officer Sicknick's murderers should be immune.

As for whether Trump should be prosecuted after his departure... I'll accept that if a full prosecution is simultaneously launched against the Clinton Foundation. And if we get an impartial accounting for Teh Voting Irregularities. Throw in that arraignment against Dick Cheney for torture that the Dems were promising back in the 2000s. Otherwise no; it will be a selective and punitive retaliation against a man guilty mainly of Governing While Republican (however poorly). We cannot permit this in a supposedly First World polity.

Take that last sentence as you will.