The article briefly catalogs the worst of Trump's crimes and corruption and how parts of the country will suffer aftershocks once he's gone. But, thankfully, democracy survived, notwithstanding Trump's attempts to bend it to his will.
This part is particularly good: "The beginning of the end of Trump’s presidency arrived on March 11, 2020, when he addressed the nation for the first time on the subject of the pandemic and showed himself to be completely out of his depth. The virus was a fact that Trump couldn’t lie into oblivion or forge into a political weapon—it was too personal and frightening, too real. As hundreds of thousands of Americans died, many of them needlessly, and the administration flailed between fantasy, partisan incitement, and criminal negligence, a crucial number of Americans realized that Trump’s lies could get someone they love killed."
The unspoken but scary subtext to this is the fact that had it not been for the coronavirus, Trump may well have been reelected. It took the virus to expose his worst side, and too many people realized they saw something truly vile indeed.
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