It is perhaps significant that today's events in Washington fall on the Feast of the Epiphany. In the Christian church, this is the date on which the Magi arrived in Bethlehem, indicating Christ's manifestation to the Gentiles. But the word has a larger, more secular meaning as well:
an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking; an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
I'm hoping the failure of the last-ditch attempt to overrule and override the electoral results in Congress today will be an epiphany for Trump...or at least for his rabid followers--a grasp of reality, an illuminating realization that their ill-considered crusade is at an end. They lost in a fairly contested election in which there was no overwhelming voter fraud. (There's always some fraud--human nature practically demands it. Somebody somewhere is going to try to cheat.)
The question is, will this epiphany be the like the one Saul of Tarsus had on the road to Damascus--when he changed from persecuting Christians to leading them? Will Trump--or at least his followers--stop being perverters of democracy and become supporters of it?
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