The fact Trump was lying is irrelevant. The man is a crook and a liar, and the fact is well known by both his enemies and his friends.

The real issue is that both his lies and his crimes are tolerated, and even celebrated, by an influential minority of the American people, and a ruthless and well entrenched conspiracy of his allies and followers in the government and business. They don't care what he's done or how much proof there is against him, the fact is that we are rapidly approaching the point (perhaps we have already passed it) where it simply won't matter what he did or how much proof there is he did it. He said it himself, he could kill a man on the street and his followers would look the other way. He's not a very intelligent man, but he knows that, and his critics continue to fail to recognize it.

If Trump were to disappear tomorrow, whether by the 25th Amendment, impeachment, a medical emergency, a fatal accident or even an assassination, there are too many powerful and ruthless people, and too many cowed and intimidated sheeple, who believe they'll gain from his policies for anything to change. The man's removal from office, for whatever reason, will simply be interpreted by his followers as some Deep State conspiracy masterminded by Soros, Obama and the Clintons. The fact that they continue to support this grotesque buffoon should tell us the removal of the Trump bullet will still leave us with a deadly wound and a worsening infection.

This conspiracy precipitated and rallied around Trump's lies, but now it will survive easily without him. It took a total and crushing military defeat and occupation to defeat Hitler's Nazis. Stalinism did not disappear when Uncle Joe died. Even after the defeat of Soviet Communism it festered in a different form after his death, and has now erupted with more virulence than ever.

No matter how totally and effectively Trump and his gang are defeated and discredited, the residual poison will remain in the system, waiting for its chance to flare up again.

It's a lesson America didn't learn in 1865. Southern fear, hatred, anger and envy has metastasized.