Trump escaped conviction in his two impeachment trials. But, he was guilty of incitement, insurrection and much more. He committed treason and should be judged accordingly. He is a serially corrupt. Unfortunately, his character was shaped at an early age by a racist, anti-Semitic father. We are all paying the price.

For the ex-president, his three oldest children and his acolytes (e.g. Rudy Giuliani), their evil natures and “overweening ambitions” (Macbeth’s best known feature), catalyzes all else. Trump remains Satanic in every sense of the term. Most of those involved in helping him attempt to secure his goals are absent a moral code and are “Enablers” in the Hitlerian sense of the term. They remain willing to do as he asks for their respective benefit and to satisfy their ambition. How do we confront this challenge?

The media may play the biggest role. The former president loves attention and is a dictionary definition of a narcisist. Perhaps, we should, unless the issue or event is of truly major importance, just ignore him. Twitter has decided to do so, and he is, thankfully, slowly disappearing from the daily political discourse. Let’s leave it to his fringe media enablers at Fox, Newsmax, et al to broadcast his lies. His base won’t believe CNN or MSNBC, so why pay him any attention? Also, let the written press deal with the untruths when analysis is necessary; otherwise, why provide the con-man with any audience for his cons?

The Justice Department, as well as every government entity throughout the 50 states that can find a reason to institute a legal proceeding against the former President and his tottering empire, should do so. Already, New York, Georgia and the feds are proceeding apace on this front. Hopefully, we can so occupy Trump’s time and resources, that he has little time to play attention to politics. The country may get lucky and Trump is convicted of something.

While Trump is ego-centric in practice, the problems he presents too often remain existential in result. His hands are no longer on the nuclear trigger, but he and his followers can cause catastrophic damage now and into the future. Remember what we so recently faced: the United States was headed towards an autocracy led by amoral, selfish grifters. The President was interested solely in his own advancement, strutted like Mussolini, and advanced policies that benefitted Putin’s Russia.

Today, an America under new leadership must deal with massive problems evaded and caused by Trump. Over 500,000 Americans have sacrificed their lives to an incompetent, uncaring President who made sure he, his family, and their acolytes received superb medical care while the rest of us received treatment centered on availability, affordability, status and luck. The message was clear: Others can handle Covid. We have more important things to do (like playing golf). Does anyone really want more of this?