THE END BEGINS

Against all odds, spines are, at long last, being found

Piety personified

Historians will look back on this week — in particular, on Trump’s indulgence of his psychotic compulsion to inflict pain and suffering on his enemies (tear-gassing the peaceful protesters who comprise an infinitesimal fraction of the hundreds of millions of people on the planet who don’t think he is the greatest human who ever walked the earth so he could stage the most idiotic photo op of all time), and on his subsequent beyond self-parodic statement that George Floyd would be looking down on his crowing about a minor uptick in an economy that was destroyed by the sickening combination of all of his repugnant qualities (which is to say ALL of his qualities) and be thinking what a “great day” it was in the world he was obscenely removed from mere days earlier — as the absurdly overdue beginning of the end.

In just the past few days, more than a dozen military officers have begun the parade of those who are finally daring to point out the hideous nakedness of this self-imagined emperor.

• Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing…