"What Did They Think Was Going to Happen?"

"Trump accommodators, of both the direct and indirect variety, will scoff at the idea that what is happening to the country right now is in any way related to Trump's incompetent and toxic performance.
"They have to scoff. Because to admit that Trump played any part in bringing us to this moment is to admit culpability for the role they played all the times they covered for him because, you know, Gorsuch. So instead they tweet outrage at the cities on fire and the protestors in the street with a studied blindness to the fact that this is the logical conclusion—to paraphrase John Heilemann—of putting a pyromaniac in charge of a tinder box."

At The Bulwark, anti-Trump conservative Sarah Longwell castigates pro-Trump conservatives.

And David Smith at The Guardian writes that Trump is "uniquely ill-qualified for this moment."