Ralph, elections are won because the diehards flip enough of the wafflers in the middle to their side. All of the discussion about the Capitol idiot-fest would be moot if Trump, when asked if he accepts blame for Covid response errors, would have said, "Mistakes were made. I won't play the blame game. But I'm the president and the buck stops here. I apologize. From here on out we will work harder & we will do better. Thank you." In other words, if he'd have acted like an adult or a leader and not like the little kid whose mommy says, "Donald who broke the vase?" "Wasn't me mom. Must have been the dog," when they don't even have a dog. America is almost criminally forgiving of its presidents. I think he'd still be president. In my mind, Trump's complete lack of humility in the face of his own egregious stupidity just makes him the spiritual heir of George Bush who landed on an aircraft carrier festooned with MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banners, a big stupid grin plastered on his face, right before the real slaughter in Iraq got started. Don't recall any apologies from the Shrubster either. The only difference is that America was too busy shitting its collective pants during Bush's term to think clearly so they re-elected the idjit , justifying it with bits of popular wisdom such as, "Well Cleetus, Mr. Bush started us on this journey to the cliff's edge, so we might as well let the old boy drive us right over." I think the phrase most describing America during the Bush years would be "Scared Stupid."