Hang on just a little longer.

There are just a few hours to go before America's long nightmare is over. The last four years have been pure hell for those of you who value democracy and believe that America might have been on the right track to fulfilling her dream of becoming a perfect union before this train wreck came along.  

Donald J. trump has been a disaster in so many ways that just trying to list them all in one blog post would be pretty much impossible. He has fractured the country in ways not seen since the Civil War, and he has emboldened racists to act out their darkest tendencies in unimaginable ways. Is anyone surprised, then, that he is going out with the lowest approval rating of any other president in history? I know that I am not. All of you who held your noses and voted for him because of his tax cuts and deregulations should be looking at yourselves in the mirror. You should be asking yourselves: Was it worth it? I know what the families of 400,000 dead Americans will say: It was not. 

But before we go all in on Donald trump, let's not forget that he could not have done all of this without the help of the weak spineless republican politicians who allowed him to exercise his power unchecked. They sold their souls to be close to power, and this is where it got us. Now, incredibly, they are all trying to jump ship and pretend that we weren't paying attention to their slavish sycophantic behavior over the past four years. Today, Mitch McConnell declared on the senate floor, that Mr. trump is pretty much responsible for the invasion on the nation's capitol by a bunch of thugs and insurrectionist on January 6th. Where has this kind of bravado been for the past four years?  Watch as  republicans now pretend that the last four years never happened. Good luck with that. I, for one, will be here to remind them every single day that it did.  

It frankly still amazes me that Americans elected this man. He was too boorish and incompetent to be a  dog catcher let alone the president of the United States. And yet he pulled it off. He was shielded in part by his whiteness, his gender, and the perception that he had wealth and power. Barack Obama could only dream of doing the things that he did and got away with. 

Mr. trump and his birther wife will not be attending the Biden inauguration, and that ought to tell you all you need to know about the character of the man and the woman he married. Try and remember how they were both treated by the Obamas when they were transitioning to the White House. Even after the vicious and racist birther lie that they fomented against him. They Obamas were still gracious and respectful to them. trump and his birther wife are so petty and vindictive that they will not show the same type of grace and courtesy to the Bidens.

Honestly, I just want them gone. The less we see and hear from Mr. trump and his family over the next few years the better. I don't know what the republicans will do, because he is still very much a part of their party, and his cult members and followers have their own ideas about what the republican party should look like. The others will do what  Mckay Coppins writing in The Atlantic say they will do. 

"People who spent years coddling the president will recast themselves as voices of conscience, or whitewash their relationship with Trump altogether. Policy makers who abandoned their dedication to “fiscal responsibility” and “limited government” will rediscover a passion for these timeless conservative principles. Some may dress up their revisionism in the rhetoric of “healing” and “moving forward,” but the strategy will be clear—to escape accountability by taking advantage of America’s notoriously short political memory. Doug Heye, a longtime GOP strategist..... responded with a litany of episodes to memory-hole. “Republicans will want to forget the constant chaos, the lies, the double-dealing, the hiring of family, and the escalating rhetoric that incited hate for four years [and] directly led to what happened at the Capitol,” Basically, any of those things that we never would have let an Obama or Clinton get away with, but constantly justified to ourselves in the name of judges.” 

 Just a few more hours to go. 

I can see the light already.