The fact that Trump has threatened democratic norms since coming down the escalator in 2015, all the way to denying the results of the 2020 election and egging on an insurrection on January 6, apparently does not matter.
One thing that has gone tragically wrong with American politics over the past eight years is that the electorate has admitted into the highest reaches of national life a man obviously lacking in the moral temperament, training and character required of a national leader.
“If a religious tradition such as Christianity takes a wrong turn in a particular time and place, its positive potential can turn to ruinous toxicity.”
We ought to be able to see we have had at the forefront of our national life for the last decade a man of lawlessness whom this passage aptly describes.