6 mob may have been dispersed, and more than 900 of its alleged participants prosecuted, but the angry amorality of that mob still dominates the Republican Party, rendering many of its elected and appointed officials mere toadies to Trumpian lies. According to a Monmouth University poll released in early August following eight of those hearings, which revealed previously undisclosed details of how Trump incited the insurrection at the Capitol last year, only about 40 percent of Republicans believe Trump did anything wrong-approximately the same percentage as did before the hearings began-and 61 percent of Republicans still embrace his false assertion that the election was fraudulent. 6, 2021, insurrection, scheduled to resume in September, appears to be changing the minds of Trump’s millions of supporters. Similarly, very little that has come out of the congressional hearings around the Jan. And nothing Trump’s successor, Biden, has done seems to have vanquished the Trump specter on the contrary, Biden has co-opted much of Trump’s populist “America First” agenda even as he recently condemned Trump’s movement as “ semi-fascism.” constitutional order by fomenting a mob eager to hang his vice president (with Trump’s endorsement). President Donald Trump was dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House, after he sought to destroy what was left of the U.S. That’s the most reliable conclusion we can draw from the malign spectacle of the last 20 months since former U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called “ the American experiment” may no longer be recognizable-or even salvageable. It threatens to haunt us so far into the future that, by the time it’s gone, what U.S. Let the world beware: Trumpism was a long time coming, and it will be a long time going.

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