In the final analysis, when it’s boiled down to the salt, 70 million Americans do not support the strides this nation has made on civil and human rights. They won’t say that out loud, instead proclaiming Trump “tells it like it is.”

But there can be no plainer translation. Trump has a well documented history on such matters, stretching back decades and has not evolved on a single issue.

What most of that 70 million won’t tell you is they agree with it. They say they don’t like his tone, but they do. They wish they could talk like that in open company without losing a job, friends or anything valuable to them.

That sad truth is we are just as divided as our politics suggest. No exceptional nation would have elected Trump. No exceptional nation would allow him to destroy confidence in this republic.

No exceptional nation would have allowed Puerto Rico to suffer in the wake of a hurricane or allow a president to trade sweet talk for California fire disaster assistance.

No exceptional nation would have allowed him to sleep a single night in the WH knowing how he used the force of government to enrich himself and his family.

He hired sycophants and nincompoops then placed them in charge of the federal responses to a global pandemic. The cost was millions of infections, some with lifelong impacts, and +230,000 American lives.

If Mitch McConnell had a shred of moral fiber, he would gather Meadows and Barr and head over to the WH. There he would tell this president that it’s over, pack his bags. He doesn’t. He won’t.