THE Trump he is a breath away from power, while four years ago today the US was experiencing a day of chaos. It was January 6, 2021 when Donald Trump, refusing to accept the outcome of the election, called the mob supporting him to gather in Washington, a move that led to the bloody and traumatic for the US storming the capitol.

The attackers beat police officers and disrupted the congressional session that ratified Joe Biden’s victory, a session scheduled to take place today to ratify Donald Trump’s victory in last November’s election.

The democracy that Trump tried to desecrate in 2021, today secures his return to power, CNN notes in its analysis.

This meeting brings back chilling memories.

The formality, which will pave the way for Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president in two weeks, will also highlight the moment in the American nation’s political history when Trump is more powerful and popular than ever. A majority of voters decided that despite his outrageous behavior four years ago, he was the best choice to lead the country until January 2029.

January 6, 2025 will mark the most spectacular comeback in US political history. At the same time, it will highlight the failure of the Democratic Party to convince voters that Trump is a mortal threat to the country’s democracy and that they had the answers to Americans’ concerns about the economy and immigration.

The formal recognition of Trump’s victory by Congress – which will be chaired by Kamala Harris – is the reward for an extraordinary effort by Trump, his supporters and the conservative media machine to “wash away” what happened four years ago, one of the darkest points in US history.

Trump, with a firestorm of disinformation, has convinced millions of Americans of his lie about stealing the 2020 election.

Republicans have managed to rebrand the January 6 rioters as “tourists”, persecuted victims and heroes, despite hundreds of convictions issued by courts.

Trump has promised to pardon those found guilty of the attack.

He launched his 2024 campaign with the recording of the national anthem by the “J6 choir”, which includes prisoners jailed for their role in the uprising. And he renamed January 6, 2021 a “beautiful day” and a “day of love.”

This could hardly be more misleading, notes CNN.

The Jan. 6 truth was told in shocking detail by witnesses and officials to a select congressional committee when the House was still in Democratic control.

“It was a massacre. It was chaos,” said Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who described slipping in the blood of her colleagues.

While this was happening, senators and political staff ran for their lives, Trump supporters breached the Senate chamber and secret agents fled then-Vice President Mike Pence as the crowd called for him to be hanged.

By managing to stave off his second impeachment on January 6, 2021, handing control back to Republicans and winning the election despite the criminal charges, Trump avoided paying a significant political price for his attack on democracy.

When he won the election in November 2024, from a political outlier to become one of the most important figures in American history.

In the meantime he had managed to present the attempts to bring him to justice for his criminal misdeeds as a personal prosecution, creating a conspiracy around him.

He will return to the White House even stronger, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling that grants the president substantial criminal immunity for acts committed while in office.

And most importantly, CNN notes, Trump will send a message for the ages that a president who refuses to accept the result of a free and fair election and who instigates an attack on Capitol Hill can overcome it and regain power.