Six months ago, after four years of ever-increasing fealty to an ignorant, narcissistic sociopath with a tenuous relationship to reality, one of the two main political parties in the United States, having evolved into a totalitarian death cult based on the worship of this demagogue (and non-stop liar), openly declared war on both the country and its system of government. After thousands of supporters attacked the US Capitol, with one of their stated goals being the murder of the Vice President and numerous other members of Congress and other representatives, they praised these insurrectionists (who beat police officers with metal pipes and other weapons) as loyal, non-violent patriots.