Trump is Toppled — and Democracy Trembles

Tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash-bang grenades.

That’s what it took to clear peaceful protestors from Lafayette Square last June to make way for a presidential photo-op outside of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

Pesky protesters properly banished, President Trump held a Bible high, waving it about as the cameras rolled.

It’s a sure bet that the President has little working knowledge of the book he brandished that day. It contains, for instance, these words spoken by Jesus Himself: “So in everything do to others as you would have them do unto you.”

It may take more than tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash-bang grenades, however, to dislodge the just-defeated President from the Oval Office.

The presidential election outcome begs another Scriptural offering: “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”

It follows that the larger the ego, the greater the fall — and Mr. Trump’s tumble has been, well, bigly.

As 2020 dawned bright and new he was sailing toward re-election, much to the horror of the Democrats and the lion’s share of the media who have hated him with an unrelenting, white-hot passion. Boorish, bumptious, fractious governing style aside, at the start of this election year the…