Let’s start with this: the disturbance at the Capitol on January 6, as Donald Trump and his supporters made a last-ditch attempt to somehow overturn the results of the 2020 election, was neither an “insurrection” nor a “siege,” nor was it conducted by “seditionists.” At best, it was an ill-advised, unsupervised, possible provoked demonstration in a lost cause that could have no good effect other than the venting of personal pique and MAGA fury. The fact is, the election was lost back in the summer, and even White House veterans knew it – out of money and essentially rudderless, and marked by supererogatory campaign events that likely provoked more hostility among Trump’s foes than new voters. The churn among the campaign staff, including one campaign manager who wound up being taken down by Florida police after a family dispute, was emblematic of a president who trusted no one but his …