What will this be called in the history books?

[redstateblues]

Trump's Insurrection? The Big Lie?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Which of the many "this" are you pointing to?

(waiting for someone to respond to OP with "THIS!!&quot

[Cirque du So-What]

5. ...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. What's that? I see a blank. Is there some video there you neglected to describe?

[Cirque du So-What]

15. This is this

A six-second YouTube of a Robert De Niro line in The Deerhunter. I see it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Ah, okay. . . . nt

[LeftInTX]

2. When the US was a banana republic for 4 years

[Cirque du So-What]

3. White supremacy's last stand

[Bucky]

4. That doesn't sound like it'll be accurate

sad to say

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I tried

If only it could be downhill from here.

[Wounded Bear]

6. The Fear Hall Putsch...nt

[Bucky]

21. DUzy

if we still had 'em

[PJMcK]

7. You have to use Trump's Queens, NY accent

The Trump Error

becomes

Da Trump Era.

[Zoonart]

8. The Trump Troubles

[Fullduplexxx]

11. Depends on who writes it

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. The second darkest period in America's history?

[Chainfire]

13. The Dark Ages

Hell, I just hope WE get to write the history. The jury is still out.

[Buckeyeblue]

14. The 4-year vomit

[unblock]

17. The quintessential argument for national popular vote

As in, "*that* is why you let the popular vote winner run the country"

[rzemanfl]

18. If they're truthful, The Shit Storm. n/t

[Bucky]

20. HEY!!! Children have to read that history book

It's the Shit Bonanza

[Bucky]

19. I hate to go there, but...

but the "Nazification of the Republican Party" wouldn't be inaccurate. We could also go with "the Age of Lies" or the Great Turning.

Given what Trump has left us with, this may be the decade when the long-predicted ending of American international hegemony finally turned gradually away from global leadership and toward being "first among equals" among the liberal democracies.

Of course a LOT of that depends on who replaces Merkel in Germany and whether Macron bounces back (or is replaced by someone who can partner with Germany to make Europe a global influencer). There's a power vacuum in the west cause of Trump, and both Britain and Japan are too shy to step up.

Between the Trump Debacle (how's that for a chrononym?) and the Covid crisis, the ebbing of Western leadership has been accelerated. If you think things are bad in 1st world-3rd world relationships, wait till you see how in the next couple of years Africa and South-Ocean-rim Asian countries react to the wealthy nations hogging all the vaccine supplies. We're at a Great Turning in history. Trump was an accelerant (as is the pandemic), but probably not a catalyst.

[El Supremo]

22. When the idiots were in charge n/m

[Xolodno]

23. The Orange Nightmare. nt

[royable]

24. Jan 6 Insurrection Day

Jan 13 Impeachment Day
Jan 20 Inauguration Day, also known as Disinfection Day.

Jan 20 2017 to Jan 19 2021 -- The Lost Years

[Poiuyt]

25. I think this will simply be called the Trump Era

In due time, the name Trump will be considered an malediction. According to historian Douglas Brinkley, Trump will be thought of the same way as Benedict Arnold, so the Trump Era will be seen as a black spot in American history.

[crimsonandclover]

26. Gone With the Wind.

Because the insurrection was swept away like a trailer park in Alabama. And trust me. I live in Alabama and I've seen what tornadoes will do to trailers. I saw a whole one in a tree.