This was the day that never should have happened. That never should have been allowed to happen. It is also the day that many of us have seen coming for the past four years. The madness that we all saw on display in our nation’s capital on Wednesday is nothing more than the natural outgrowth of the madness we have seen demonstrated over and over again by this lawless administration ever since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. His naked, enthusiastic appeal to the promoters of white racism and white nationalism has been front and center from the very beginning. So how can we truly be surprised when the chicken came home to roost on the Capitol steps?