Goodbye, Donald Trump. We’ll never forget you — or the people who helped you out | Reed Galen,...

"In 2017, Donald Trump began his presidency decrying a period of “American carnage” that did not exist. Four long years later, we now know that Trump was speaking prospectively — he told us what he would do to the United States. Every one of his nearly 1500 days in office was a prelude to the violence and destruction we saw on Wednesday, January 6.

For many of us, that Trump would dismantle our institutions, sully the presidency and harm Americans was never a foregone conclusion. Few of us had the imagination to understand just what those predictions would actually mean: unprecedented division, mass death and economic calamity.

Trump’s amorality and inhumanity has cost as many Americans lives as we lost in the Second World War. Last spring, many of us were gut-punched when we surpassed our losses in the Vietnam War. The death toll will continue to mount. Even with the best expectations and hopes for Joe Biden’s administration, we will lose hundreds of thousands more before we fully contain Covid-19".