The impeached, disgraced and cowardly Donald Trump — a man who has trampled over democracy with his lying, corruption and glaring ignorance — is finally slinking away from the White House this week. It’s a pity it wasn’t four years ago.

The end of the Trump presidency is as mangled and corrupt at the end as it has been since 2016. Trump is departing without so much as a nod to the incoming President Joe Biden after having continued to insist that he was cheated out of the election by rampant voter fraud — rampant fraud that no one, Republicans included, could ever document.

Worse, his election lies incited an insurrection against the United States government, a riot of white nationalists, QAnon supporters and fringe hangers-on who stormed the Capitol at Trump’s bidding, an act for which Trump has been impeached — a second time — and likely will face. criminal charges.

What a disgusting person he is. His disdain for the Constitution and the rule of law is egregious. He has brought on himself a legacy that will forever link him to a seditious mob who tried to destroy the citadel of government and the people who are responsible to it. He has no shame about that, only perfunctory regret, most likely because the rioters didn’t succeed.

The sooner he’s gone the better for America. And better for the (few) responsible Republican lawmakers who have wasted their lives endorsing the president’s misbehaviors. There aren’t many profiles in courage in the GOP once you get past Sen. Mitt Romney, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and some others. Hooray for them. May they rise as we move into the 2020s.

And as we move into 2021, let us not say good-bye to Donald Trump. Let us instead wish him all the misery and terrors he has so justly earned since 2016 (and before, for that matter). He is an appalling person, and the damage he has done to his country will always be the prime part off his legacy. Go in shame, Donald. And go.