They will think they didn't "Trump" hard enough instead. The other choice, Sir C, is too rational.

There are too many members of the Trump cadre who are, functionally, separatists now. They no longer want to continue governance as it has been.

Civil war? I think not, but others I know fear it.


But we will be a long time recovering from this (not just yesterday, that was only a crystalizing moment). "America's Century" is over. That has been growingly true since our victory in the Cold War. What way forward?

Perhaps as we remaining "cold warriors" die off (not you younglings but my generation) a newer and better definition of that "shining city upon a hill" can be brought to be.