Was January 6 an insurrection? No, it was terrible, and Trump was to blame for it, but it was about as organized as a child’s tantrum. Did Trump collaborate on some criminal scheme with Vladimir Putin? No, and the Mueller Report turned out so embarrassingly for the Left that I’m guessing that the whole mishegoss will simply be overlooked by history. Trump was impeached twice, ineffectually, but the historical takeaway will, I suspect, simply be to normalize ineffectual impeachments as party fan service whenever the House stands in opposition to the president. Now that two of the last four presidents have been impeached, the mystical quality is gone. It’s bound to become a routine occurrence.

Trump didn’t start any wars. He presided over a booming economy. He happened to be president when there was a murder after a racist rally in Charlottesville, but presidents are seldom remembered for whatever crimes are committed during their terms. True, he negotiated the withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it’s anyone’s guess how it might have concluded under Trump. Perhaps Trump would have proved unable once again to overrule his supposed underlings if they had pushed back, as they probably would have.

What are we left with? It was fashionable, for a while, for right-leaning Trump opponents to sarcastically say, “But Gorsuch!” after whatever the Trumpian outrage du jour was. The funny thing is, no one is going to remember all of those silly Twitter spats — the jibes at Little Rocket Man, the silly boasts, the misspellings and bad grammar. Trump was, from a character standpoint, unfit to be president. He was unprepared. He was unserious. He wasted time watching himself on TV and picking fights with reporters. He was in many ways embarrassing to the country.

None of this is substance, though.