But if Trump’s election sent Arnold tumbling into a bizarre new reality, he was not alone. Many Americans were so desperate for a deus ex machina that they put their faith in an array of figures who, in a universe in which Trump could become president, seemed like they could be credible prophets of his downfall.

There was Arnold, the fast-talking comic actor. There was the low-level Bill Clinton staffer and former photography shop owner and his Twitter running buddy, the novelist and former member of the British Parliament. There was the mysterious insider who reassured anxious Americans, in the pages of the New York Times, that there were Good People — like him — working to foil Trump from within his own administration. And, of course, there was the bulldog lawyer representing Trump’s alleged porn-star paramour.

Four years ago, these figures formed a kind of Little Rascals version of the Justice League, and convinced many liberals that they were on the brink of something huge.

We all know what happened to Trump: Two impeachments and one election later, he is no longer president — for reasons having little to do with any of these erstwhile heroes of the #Resistance.

But what happened to those guys?