A lot of thoughts about this, but the main one is: if he feels this way, imagine how the rest of the country feels. https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1347128871880036353

[CW: abuse] This also makes me think of how abusers, after hurting others, often cry and say "look what you made me do, you have to stay, I need you, don't leave, if you leave I might do something even worse, and it will be your fault"

[CW: abuse] It's such an example of how abusers often try to hold the people they've hurt hostage by citing *their own* pain.

[CW: abuse] Saying "We don't want to rile things up again w/ 25th Am/impeachment" is tiptoeing, trying not to "cause more trauma." But those abused don't "cause" the trauma. The abuser does. Giving him consequences is holding him accountable and saying, enough.

I guess all I want to say is: It does trauma to everyone--the country, each of us, and honestly, even Trump himself--if we pretend this is nothing and that there are consequences.

If what's we've been seeing is causing you to see parallels in your own life, you are not alone, and please reach out for help. https://www.thehotline.org/ 

[CW: abuse] The videos of the rioters breaking into the Capitol and then screaming: "THEY did this to us! We were law-abiding citizens and they made us do this!"... That's a dynamic so many who've experienced abuse will recognize. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1347044066916229122