The United States government is on fire. The slow burning fire of violence erupted on January 6 with a murderous assault on the Capitol. The storming of the United States (US) Capitol in Washington DC by a mob of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other right-wing extremists, incited prior to the march by Trump and his discourse of hate and call to violence, provided yet another example that the United States no longer lives in the shadow of authoritarianism and has tipped over into the abyss. The mob’s actions followed a Trump speech in which he once again claimed the election was fraudulent and urged the crowd to march on the Capital. Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. Trumpism will have an afterlife long after Trump leaves the White House. Every era produces a language and cultural markers that offer insights into its politics, values, and vision of the past, present and future.