“And when that reckoning comes, Donald Trump will not stand in the line of ordinary presidential scandals. He will stand where the worst of all republic-wreckers stand: as a warning, a stain, and a verdict. A despicable fascist swine in salesman clothing. A vile ridiculous excuse of a man.”
He did not merely break norms or enrich himself. He weaponized lies, power, and grievance in service of one goal no president before him had openly pursued: overturning American democracy itself.