 Aloha. Thank you for your consideration of the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary. The burning of the Reichstag in 1933 gave Hitler a path to power. He did it and got away with it. Fast forward to now. Did the January 6th insurrection fail? No, actually it succeeded. Trump's army came together, largely because he asked them to. The conspiracy was not so much to stop the count as it was a real, actual and unmistakable coup attempt to overthrow our government. The TV footage are indelibly stamped on our minds and memories, an open, armed, hostile and lethal breach of our capital, the center and sanctum of our democracy. The undeniable thing about it is that it was a traumatic inflection in the history of our precious republic. It was our burning of the Reichstag, one that can never be walked back. Will it happen again? Yes, but not in the same way. When will it happen? Some say it's happening right now. It won't be limited to the capital or Washington, it could be elsewhere or in many places. It is not as likely to be violent, at least at first, although Trump's powerful dog whistle calls are still with us, just like the possibility of nuclear war in Europe is with us. You raise the fear of extraordinary danger, and it sticks. We worry, we are intimidated, traumatized, we are the deer in the headlights. For the moment, the resurrected insurrection has a kind of legal impermissibility, but still built on hate and divisiveness. Is that less of an insurrection? If you do all these things to destroy the country on election day, you don't need to repeat January 6. If you thought the hanging chads created confusion, wait till you see the litigation of all those close races in November. Many Trumpers say we're in a civil war right now. They're really saying the insurrection is still going on, and thus the attempts at a coup are still ongoing. The damage Trump has done to the country is incalculable and probably permanent. Look around. The insurrection has had and is having a huge effect on every aspect of our society, the perception of ourselves and who we are, and the world's perception, too. Can you really say it isn't still happening? Can you say it isn't having the very same Reichstag burning effect that Trump and his co-conspirators have sought to achieve? Think again. Thanks so much for considering the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary. Aloha.