...but his followers are just as numerous, and they are increasingly more desperate, and more dangerous. And bolder, because now they know they can get away with it.

Those few who are publicly abandoning him didn't really care that much for him anyway, but they supported him because he served their economic agenda. And now, they're looking for someone even more virulent and malignant (and competent!) that can promote their fascist policies even more effectively. They felt they "could control him" and replace him later with someone more acceptable to the American public, and more amenable to taking orders. Where have we heard that before?

Meanwhile, those of us opposed to Trumpism are becoming more complacent and distracted the "weaker' he gets. That's what's really pathetic.

We cannot afford to forget that we live in a nation where about a third of the population actually supports Trump and everything he stands for, and where one of our major political parties votes in lock-step to back him up and protect him from accountability for his crimes. When they mount their next offensive, they won't make the same mistakes he did. In spite of the poor performance of the GOP in the last election, they still made gains, in the House, the statehouses, the schoolboards, and the courts. Our first line of defense, the honest and decent Republicans in the Conservative press and government have been systematically purged or primaried from the Party. And who knows what beast is slouching out of fetid Southern swamps, waiting to be born?

We ain't out of the woods yet, brother. Our problems are just starting.