Time and again, people have commented on what history will say about what happened this week in the United States. Some have contested that perspective, but I believe the "What will history say" perspective, if used well, is very positive.
Whenever I act, I think about "What will history say?" To take that long view gives good perspective. For example as Democrats prepare Articles of Impeachment today, and we consider the question, What will history say? We know that history will say that Congress is doing the right thing--to allow the sitting President of the United States to wage war on the American people is a traitorous act, insurrection, dangerous, and a clear abuse of power. History will say, a self-serving President Trump, skilled as a propagandist, incited insurrection and caused many to storm The Capitol, vandalize, threaten, frighten, obstruct the just confirmation of a free and fair election, harm, and even kill innocent people. If no one acted, history would say, the American leaders were complicit with Trump's insurrection which made the country weak and opened the door to fruther violence, revolt, insurrection, harm, and death of innocent Americans.
Whenever I write and act, I think, What will history say? Recently I wrote a controversial letter to a close friend. Before I wrote the letter, I considered what the effects might be of writing the letter or not writing the letter. I decided that writing the letter was a safer, more positive effort than not writing the letter. Although it's possible that the letter may cause some struggle, but the struggle related to not writing the letter is potentially much greater.
When we think on our own and with others, What will history say? we cannot always predict accurately, but we it's better to consider this than not to consider this. If I look at the many tough decisions I've made over life, this perspective have mostly led me in the right direction. On a few occasions what happened was very different than I imagined at the time, but in every situation, I made what I thought given the information I had the best decision. For those bad decisions, I learned what not to do in the future--that helps too.
So, as we think about what to do about an errant President Trump, I believe they should have already removed him from office with the 25th because I do believe he is a present, grave danger to the safety of the American people, our government, and our lands, water, and air. I also believe he should be impeached and convicted so that he can never serve in office again and hopefully not receive any financial rewards for his service as President. Later I believe he should be prosecuted, fined, and jailed for the abuse of power which led to costly vandalism, mental/physcial stress/harm for many, obstruction of justice, and the death of some. He should be criminally charged for this.
Trump has been an onorous weight on the shoulders of good people througout the United States and the world. While he offered a kind of freak show entertainment and hope via false propaganda to some, as President he did no good for most of us, and took our country back, back, back leaving lots and lots of repair work for the Biden administration.
Fortunately, his heinous behavior has demonstrated what an evil President can do to our good country and government, and hopefully we have learned a valuable lesson that will help us to work better with one another to truly build a strong country. Good government is not entertainment, good government is the steady, informed, diligent, collaborative work to serve the people well and support good living for all. I know that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will lead us in that direction.