The Memo: Trump leaves changed nation in his wake

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President Trump’s term of office will end at noon on Wednesday, but his impact will reverberate for years.

To his critics — not all of them Democrats — Trump has been a uniquely destructive figure, traducing every norm, insulting every opponent and sowing havoc across the nation.

Those traits reached their nadir in the Jan. 6 insurrectionary violence at the Capitol, which shocked the world and, soon afterward, made Trump the first president in history to be impeached on two occasions.  Continue reading.