JANUARY 6, 2024, fell on a Saturday, marking two years since a furious mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol and sent lawmakers scrambling to safe rooms and away to undisclosed locations. Then vice president Mike Pence, who has withdrawn from the presidential race for 2024, was one of the targets, with many chanting “Hang Mike Pence” because they saw him as a traitor for certifying the election results. Since then, the FBI has systematically gone through CCTV and other sources to identify everyone who was involved in the insurrection. They have faced arrest and lost employment as a consequence of their actions.
This does not mean that their leader, former president Donald Trump, has changed his ways. In the run-up to this year’s election in the United States, he has said that, if elected, he will imprison his political enemies. He has also suggested that Gen Mark Milley, the US military’s former chairman joint chiefs of staff, ought to be executed. He hates Gen Milley for, among other reasons, asking for flags to be lowered following the death of senator John McCain, whom Trump also hated and called a ‘loser’ because he was taken prisoner of war in Vietnam. In short, Trump fully intends to use his political office during a possible second stint as a vehicle for exacting vengeance on just about everyone that he does not care for.
A Trump win may be entirely possible. He is leading Biden in all of the polls. The other Republicans running for the nomination........