Congratulations, President Trump! It took a while but you’ve finally achieved the American carnage that you purported to descry in your inaugural address four years ago. It would be hard to think of a more symbolically apt end to your presidency.

Trump’s shameful, revolting and tawdry taped message late this afternoon urging his supporters to disband devoted more urgency to calling the election a fraud than condemning their storming of the US Capitol.