The events today have been absolutely sickening. As a patriotic American I'd saddened, angered, and have a simmering rage against the President and his crew for inciting these actions today. It is terrible that a life was lost by a undoubtedly deluded woman following the lies of narcissist wannabe dictator. Her blood and the fact that the Capitol was stormed at all at the incitement of the sitting President seems to thankfully have led to a further disgust of Trump's actions by many of the fence sitting pro Trump folks I know. Thankfully many of these are citizens first and republicans second. The feelings seem similar to post 9/11 but nowhere near as strong or unifying.

Sadly the fringe excuse making is already happening, claiming that black-flag ANTIFA and BLM members were responsible for any vandalism. Though many Republican congressmembers have switched to not opposing the count of the electoral votes most that signed on originally remain un-swayed.

In a perfect world the House could draft articles of impeachment tomorrow and the senate could vote on it the following day. This together with any 25th Amendment expulsion are just pipe-dreams for those of us that cannot stand Trump. Sadly after today I imagine all these politicians will go home and then go back to shrewd calculations of what is favorable for their political fortunes though the speeches of many today show some sort of reconciliation.

I expected political theater and nonsense today and have been deeply disappointed though I still think the institutions remain overall strong. I also think that today's actions have demonstrated to the old guard political class that Trump's violations of norms and traditions can only be prevented for future presidents through clear legislation and possible constitutional amendments limited some of the POTUS powers, only the future will show though.

I think the only other silver lining to today is this will likely have significantly sunk Trump's post presidency power. How he acts in the next few days and his remaining few weeks will determine whether he has Republicans that will protect him from serious investigation and prosecution.