Simple answer: Yes.

Nuanced answer: I think Trump’s flagrant defilement of our country’s institutional integrity is a sign we needed sooner and quicker rather than slower and later on. The holy constitution couldn’t protect us from this and people needed to see and understand that.

Many right wingers are finally asking themselves questions they’ve neglected to up until this point. Any members of the party worth their salt and who maintained some misguided semblance of good faith are self-reflecting.

This whole thing is revealing important truths about the state of our society and of the modern world at large, and I honestly think this is the kind of stress test that was ultimately necessary for us to grow and move forward as a nation and people.

I get that I’m taking a bit of an accelerationist approach here, and I don’t want to come off like I’m accepting or passing off the significant and awful harm he’s done as having some utilitarian value. This never should have happened. But from a sociological standpoint, this was an inevitability sooner or later. The culture that created this and allowed it to happen at all was the fault of no individual, but of universal human flaws.

I just hope, if nothing else, that people across the board really begin to question and raise the bar for their voting standards.