Trump’s stream-of-consciousness Twitter storms in response to any perceived slight were childish tantrums, indicating a lack of emotional maturity that put terror in the hearts of normal adults. Words matter, and humoring Trump and his power and control fantasies have had real-world consequences, dangerous ones. Trump’s poisonous Presidency will soon end. The crisis of the Republican Party has barely begun.

Congressman Adam Schiff warned the Senate at the end of the Trump president’s impeachment trial: “We must say enough—enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again. He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.”

You get a circus when you elect a clown, and he will burn the tent down.