It has been almost eight years since Donald Trump came down the escalator in Trump Tower

and defiled American society with his racist rantings, his lunacies, his demagoguery,

and his hostility to every precept concept of Americanism,

the American idea, the American ideal, the history of the country.

Trump is utterly, completely, and totally ignorant of all of these things, which puts him in good

stead along with the overwhelming majority of Americans who also have no idea about the country's

idea, its ideals, and its precepts.

The collapse of civics education around the meaning of the country, its point, its purpose,

its story, has taken us to this most dangerous hour.

There is no question that Donald Trump incited and led an insurrection against the lawful,

peaceful transition of power. Donald Trump tried to stage a coup. He sent a mob and it invaded the

Capitol. And it is not accidental that when that mob came, they were carrying the Confederate

battle flag. And they paraded it through the Capitol

Rotunda, breaching the Capitol, something the Confederacy was unable to achieve during

the Civil War.

There are significant consequences that have occurred because of this insurrection.

There have been hundreds of criminal convictions. Many people have been imprisoned. Trump was

impeached and he faces criminal counts in jurisdictions across the country.

The Colorado Supreme Court has issued a ruling, and the ruling is that Donald Trump may not

appear on the Colorado ballot. He will be stricken from it under Section 3 of the 14th

Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was ratified in the immediate aftermath of the

Civil War and its design was to keep top officials of the Confederate government from serving again

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