Thread by @SimonWDC

Over the coming years we are going to learn much more about the major dark episodes of the Trump era, and it’s going to be really bad for Trump, McConnell and the rest of the GOP. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…

Let me offer a few first cuts of what we will come to understand:

1- Trump only won in 2016 due to Russia's help, and that leverage was used by Putin to pressure Trump into a kind of strategic partnership (Helsinki), which included aligning US foreign policy w/Russia's aims.

2 - That among the things Trump did for Putin was the entire wild, reckless Ukraine affair, which both attacked a 2020 Democrat cut in Clinton's muscular foreign policy cloth and denigrated Zelensky and his project.

3 - That the corruption/suppression of the Senate Impeachment Trial in 2020 was among the worst abuses of power by American leaders in our history, and that it will cast McConnell as a dark villain in all future histories of the era.

4 - Trump's mis-management of COVID will become understood as something akin to losing a major war thru incompetence - an historic epic blunder which caused unnecessary death, extraordinary economic carnage and lasting harm to the American people themselves.

5 - That Jan 6th will become understood as the culmination of months of planning, an extended right wing putsch which included things like the breaking of the Census and USPS, and the purposeful radicalization of extremists to attack/undermine Democrats.

https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1355277874903855105

6 - Trump will be understood to be an historically venal figure, corrupt beyond imagination, compromised by and in the thrall of a hostile foreign power, a would be dictator who waged an unprecedented assault on American democratic institutions.

He will become a pariah.

7- Had left this one out, but it matters - the invention and misdirection of the Antifa threat, the creation of the "radical left" danger, has been the foundation of Trump's calls to violence, the radicalization we've seen.

nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/…