As we learn of Trump’s LIES and his involvement in the violent insurrection, I doubt that it will really make a difference.

 We all know what hap, but only some of us care.

The committee’s hearing may put a dent in those numbers, but if history is our guide, his cult will remain unflappable and intact.

This is the legacy of Trump: the alteration of our political reality.

As was made clear during Thursday’s hearing, multiple people told Trump that he had lost the election and that there was no widespread fraud. It appears that he wasn’t laboring under a delusion when he attempted to steal the election; he was raging his own lie about that . Indeed, it is not clear to me that this country can survive him calling the shots from the sidelines now.

The political system has proved too compromised by Trump’s own influence to hold Trump accountable in a way that ends this nightmare. Now, the legal system is all we have left, and Trump has been harder to pinch than flesh slathered in tanning oil.

We must now wait to see if the committee has the goods not to change the minds of voters, which feels increasingly like a lost cause, but to change the minds — or quicken the spirits — of prosecutors at the Department of Justice.

Trump has changed America, but we can still prevent him from destroying it.