It's been days since Donald Trump was found guilty of all those felony counts, sending the high-profile and historic New York trial to a sudden and impactful end.

With that, the soon-to-be Republican nominee for president became a convicted felon, and the country began to react to what that meant for the party and for a 2024 presidential election that feels as if it's finally getting started.

We have some of that reaction for you through opinion columns and content posted throughout the USA TODAY Network. Below are columns from professional writers and submissions for regular people trying to make sense of it all. You'll find liberal and conservative voices writing about the verdict.

Donald Trump – a well-established liar and consistently cruel conspiracy theorist – will carry a new label into the 2024 presidential election: convicted felon.

It’s an apt development for Trump, who has spent his life evading accountability, and for Republicans who allowed a transparent con artist to walk in and run roughshod over any modicum of decency their formerly Grand Old Party may have possessed.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee will, of course, wail endlessly about the injustice brought on him by a jury of his peers. He’ll attack the jurors, the judge, the district attorney, the entire U.S. justice system, Biden, all Democrats, the news media, any relative you have who has ever cast even the mildest aspersions at him. The blast radius for his blame-casting will be global.

And some will buy it. — Rex Huppke, USA TODAY

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