While American history has certainly seen some colorful elections, few, if any, can hold a candle to the contentiousness of the 2020 presidential race, a contest marked by misinformation and bitterness — during which the nation seemed at various points ready to tear itself apart over racial injustice — and conducted in the middle of a global pandemic.
Finally, it's over, but not without one (hopefully) last, horrible gasp as a pro-Trump mob swarmed and ransacked the Capitol, causing chaos, forcing a joint session of Congress to evacuate, and leaving five dead.
It's the kind of history nobody wanted made, and there will be one more footnote to add.