The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!!

All roads lead back to Trump's pathological narcissism. We might lose our democracy over it. https://t.co/eD5Um7ygXY

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 12, 2022

At the other extreme:

One of the most chilling aspects of the 1/6 hearings is reliving how much the worst elements in American life had reached the apex of American power under Trump. Extremism lent the veneer of presidential power.

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) July 12, 2022

One does wonder what rocks such people were living under, and for how long?

The most shocking thing is that we almost lost our constitutional republic and our democratic system to this troupe of skells, loons, degenerates, and fourth rate hustlers.

We didn’t even get a quality set of supervillains trying to destroy America.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 12, 2022

A) no, we didn’t, because the government is not the people in Congress or the White House. And

B) We got the supervillains we deserved. It’s a representative government.

Trump wanted to make sure “RINOs did the right thing.”

You lost to the RINOs, Donald.

🦏🦏🦏🦏#January6thCommittee

— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) July 12, 2022

In a “table top” exercise during the summer of 2020, @BillKristol and I (playing the role of Trump/WH) moved to have the Feds seize voting machines. I thought it was outlandish but we wanted to use all the (imaginary) power we could. Trump really wanted to do it. #Jan6thHearings

— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) July 12, 2022

No, we didn’t almost lose our republic to this clown. Yes, he never should have been in office. Yes, that is on all of us. We have to learn from that object lesson.