Attempted insurrection failed to disqualify a leader in a magical-thinking culture.

Evidence

At 3:32 a.m. on January 7, Congress finished certifying the Electoral College votes, formally confirming Biden’s victory. Trump went into exile at Mar-a-Lago. Yet not even stoking an armed insurrection would disqualify Trump from public life. Could there be consequences for such magical thinking when everyone’s thoughts were increasingly magical? — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 620

Categorization

• QUESTION: The closing rhetorical question — does magical thinking inoculate against consequences? — is the kind of provocation worth building an argument around.