Why The Big Surprise?

Why is everyone surprised following the Capital riot that tool place on January 7^th?  After all, this was just Trump being Trump.  For his entire career, Trump has pushed the boundary between legal and illegal crossing this boundary many times.  But, due to luck, bribery, or other reasons he was never caught and made to toe the line.  Today after the event the other day, everyone is once again up in arms.  The real question is just what are those in power to take action going to do?  My bet is nothing.  Republican leadership will make condemnations but there’s little chance they will take any action to remove Trump from office.  The GOP is Trump's party. The Capitol siege has permanently stamped it with shame.  Republicans have cowered in fear of offending Trump, jettisoning their principles in the process. But Trump lost the White House, and his inability to admit he lost just cost Republicans the Senate. Now a violent coup attempt Trump encouraged has brought unprecedented shame to the Republican Party. Nothing will erase the Trump stink from the GOP. Honest conservatives, for the good of the country, should just abandon the Republican Party immediately and start over. here's nothing left to save or reform in the Republican Party. It is a rotting husk of itself. The events that unfolded on Wednesday proved once and for all that the party is nothing more than a personality cult built around Trump. Trump hasn't just permanently stained the GOP, his enablers in Congress that were opposing Electoral College certification debased themselves and their party, too. That's why any honest conservative with a shred of dignity or belief in democracy should leave the Republican Party, immediately.  They shouldn't wait to form a caucus. They shouldn't workshop a new name. Just leave. Rip up your GOP card and figure out the details later. The siege of the Capitol was but one of the legacy of Trump.  Prior to the mob's treasonous rampage, the Republican Party had already surrendered its principles to Trump.  Trump's despotic refusal to accept the will of the people led him, his supporters in the media, and his blundering legal team, to wholly invent a fake narrative of widespread election fraud.  Republicans lost the White House in large part because of Donald Trump's buffoonish handling of the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, they lost the Senate because of Trump's failed, tragicomic putsch.  This strategy of de-legitimizing elections likely depressed GOP voter turnout in Georgia, and repulsed the suburban voters without which Republicans can't hope to win a statewide race in swing areas. Then, roughly 150 GOP members of the House and Senate participated in an ignoble, doomed-from-the-start spectacle that served no purpose other than to stay in Trump's good graces. It was only when Senate Majority (now Minority) Leader Mitch McConnell said in plain language that it was over, Trump lost, that it seemed sanity might prevail. And then Trump's mob breached the Capitol. And one of the darkest days in the history of the Republic unfolded further. Trump has encouraged violence from his supporters. He's said he won't accept an electoral defeat. And on the morning of the insurrection his lawyer Rudy Giuliani called for a "trial by combat."  Before the Capitol had even been retaken by law enforcement, Trump tweeted his support of the "great patriots" who did his dirty work in subverting democracy.  It was a coup attempt. It was an act of terrorism. And it was Trump's doing. The country needs to see Trump brought to justice for his involvement and will not begin to heal until he has been forced to pay the price for his crime of treason.