[abduhl]

You honestly think that THE defining event of Trump's presidency is going to be the Capitol riot? You don't think it's the bungled response to coronavirus that landed us all locked up in our houses for over a year, the assassination of an Iranian leader on another sovereign's soil, the trade war with China, the tax reform bill he pushed through, the Mueller probe, the BLM protests, the "stolen" SCOTUS seats, or any number of other things he did?

You think the defining moment of his presidency is something that he only tangentially had a hand in that resulted in a couple arrests and a stolen podium?

That's a hot take.

[dragonwriter]

How many of those other things was he impeached and subsequently condemned by the Republican floor leader in the Senate for?

[thatcat]

None of those threatened Senate directly. They are simply protecting themselves.

[abduhl]

I didn't realize that Moscow Mitch was the bellwether of history.

[three_seagrass]

Being impeached twice is the landmark here. We're living some pretty important history as it's being written right now.

[rtx]

Yup, down fall of an empire. Don't fight it, world would be a better place afterward.

[LarvaFX]

Would it? After the fall of rome we got the middle ages

[selectodude]

Those are slow burns. The attack on the capital was a severe jolt to our national psyche. You may not want them to be different, but they are.

[Bakary]

To be honest I had almost forgotten about many of these events until you mentioned them again. There are just so many things going on that it's hard to fixate too much on one thing. That said, humans tend to focus on both the beginning and end of a time-frame. In this case, the Capitol raid has a clear advantage over the other things you listed.

The virus is in its own zone as far as memory is concerned. It's been going on for so long that it overshadows Trump to some extent