The fifteen and a half months of the Trump nightmare have been a long nightmare. The last few weeks, with the legalization of child abuse by the United States Government, have been torture. I was spun up enough last night, but then I watched Rachel Maddow break down as she read about the "Tender Age" detention camps. Dealt with my insomnia by drawing this cartoon.

Woke up this morning to the news that Trump will supposedly sign an executive order today ending the separation of families at the border. I'm posting the cartoon anyway, if only to remind myself in the middle of what will no doubt be a day of feverish rewriting of history by the Trump mob, that the President of the United States abused innocent child children to get Congress to pay for his insane wall.

If Trump does sign such an order today, there is no doubt, regardless of the details (which will doubtlessly be far less than satisfying), that this is a watershed moment. For the first time Trump has bailed on a key policy. And in doing so, he has admitted that his prior rationales (the policy was based on a law, the law had to be repealed by Congress, there was nothing that he could do personally) were lies. He has clearly buckled under the worldwide outrage that he and his gangsters purposely ignited and were reveling in just a few hours ago. They were utterly convinced, until this morning, that cruelty at the border would be their winning issue in the November midterms.

Today's developments don't change the reality that the effort to rid this country of Trump and his gang will be long, brutal, and horrific. But this is his first retreat, and the fact that he surrendered may perhaps make this the "emperor has no clothes" moment that the resistance has been hoping for--the crack in the fascist dam that begins to separate Trump from at least part of his family of supporters. For weeks now, Trump supporters have been loyally defending the separation of children from their parents. Most will continue to do so, but take a look at the comments on Breitbart and the Fox News web site this morning from the many Trumpists who are feeling betrayed this morning. Now, for some of them, Trump is not racist enough. As Ann Coulter put it in a tweet this morning, "Liberals cried and America died." As usual, she got it wrong.