Wow! There's just so much going on here that it's an overload for me.

As an American I was frightened and appalled by the insurrection incited by Trump. It was scary to see the mob ransack the Capitol building. I've been there and inside and I've seen the House Chamber from the gallery. And to have all those grubby goateed goons with their flags while running amok and tearing the place apart was shocking.

Yes, as we understand what it is to be in a cult and completely off track with reality, I think that we can call the Trump phenomenon a cult.

Where and how does their cult thinking end - I don't know. It seems impossible to me and that we are headed for some kind of crazy civil war again. We had a civil war, of course, and with that one we had a physical demarcation - the North vs. South. But with this craziness being everywhere, are we going to have bombings, assassinations, and violence in the streets everywhere?

Aunt Bea, I'm certainly not an expert on Germany even though I'm mostly German, but on Wednesday it felt like the early days of Nazi Germany when they stormed the Capitol building.

And while Donald Trump is no Adolf Hitler, Trump certainly could become like him if he hasn't already in his need to be worshiped.

As a side note, back in the 90's a friend and I went to a little arts movie theater in Seattle to see the film 'The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl'. In the film was, of course, the Brown Shirts and it's leader Ernst Röhm. My friend pulled me close and whispered in my ear that Röhm was his great uncle.

Yeah, dealing with the far right Trumpers et al is probably going to be a long messy battle.

One thing that I'm wondering about as the FBI and other police are arresting and charging some of the mob that they've identified is whether Trump will pardon them along with all the other pardons he's going to be giving out.