Kimberley Strassel said, in Friday’s Wall Street Journal: “A politician has to work hard to destroy a legacy and a future in a single day. President Donald J. Trump managed it.” Early Thursday morning, after a mob, urged on and incited by Donald Trump, assaulted and occupied the Capitol, the Senate voted 93 to 6 against his objection to Arizona’s electoral votes.
And that is the way I want Donald Trump to leave Washington. I want these things to be the final memories his supporters have of him as he leaves office: A President who incited a mob to assault his own Capitol and a man who lost in the Senate 93 to 6. Because that is how he deserves to be remembered.
I just hope that those who are understandably outraged by what Donald Trump has done the past few days do not do something that will give him some new grievance, phony though it would be, on his way out of town. Because we will all better off if we, and especially his supporters, remember him as he was this week, a man so absorbed in his own losing that he betrayed his nation – and his own supporters – as he left office.
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