Maybe that did it. Maybe the heart-wrenching audios of children and toddlers wailing in holding centers at the border drove the vast majority of Americans to cry out, at long last, and say “Enough!” Or maybe it was the administration’s hubris in labeling the holding pens for toddlers and babies “tender age” centers, rather than what they were: baby jails. Or maybe it was because the people who implemented this policy made absolutely no provision for reuniting the children with their parents.

No sane human could justify the separation of children from parents, but the slimy Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave it his best shot, hauling out the Bible to justify the horrendous practice, quoting the same phrase used in past times to justify slavery. Meanwhile, Donald Trump did what he always does: blame the Democrats for a policy he himself imposed and the “fake news” media for blowing it all out of proportion. The soulless Trump had no trouble using helpless children as pawns in his quest to have Congress pay for a wall, which he had repeatedly promised that Mexico would fund.

Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, an enthusiastic Trump supporter, even took issue with this policy. Hey Franklin, what took you so long to figure out that Trump is perhaps the least Christian president in our nation’s history? I still can’t figure out why 81 percent of white Christian evangelicals voted for Donald Trump given his sordid past of lawsuits (real and threatened), bankruptcies, thuggery and adultery. When I asked someone who grew up in that environment in the midwest to explain, she immediately said, “Sexism and racism.” Those factors were important, to be sure, but Trump’s promise to appoint “conservative” (meaning anti-abortion, anti-same-sex marriage) Supreme Court Justices sealed the deal.

Not all evangelical Christians have been duped by Trump’s faux Christian stance. Tony Campolo, a popular speaker and commentator, formed Red Letter Christians to counter the misuse of the word “evangelical” to identify a voting bloc. “I want it to be known that there are millions of us who espouse an evangelical theology but who reject being classified as part of the religious right. We don’t want to make Jesus into a Republican.”

At a recent Red Letter Christian revival, one speaker said, “There is another Gospel in our country right now and it is the Gospel of Trump. It doesn’t look much like the Gospel of Jesus.”

Many patriotic Americans cried “Enough!” to Trump well before the election; we couldn’t be conned by his act. Trump promised to release his taxes and divest from his businesses after the election and never did. He promised to “drain the swamp” and then brought in swamp rats like Scott Pruit to trash the EPA, while sending his staff out to get hand cream from the Ritz and used sheets from Trump hotels. He promised to cut taxes for the little guy and then passed a tax bill, which featured big tax cuts for large corporations and the rich — including his own family.

The Trump Family Foundation recently got sued by the New York attorney general for being a pass-through for the benefit of Trump, his businesses and his presidential campaign. He described himself as a great “dealmaker,” yet his deals have featured alienating our friends and kissing up to dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un. Yes, it seems clear that Russia has something on Trump. The Mueller investigation goes on (like the ominous sound of the music in the movie “Jaws), despite Trump’s efforts to discredit the findings even before they come out.

Historian Robert Kagan, a longtime Republican and leading neoconservative, said “Enough!” in 2016 because of what he described as Trump’s fascism and endorsed Hillary Clinton. In a recent piece in the “Washington Post,” Kagan wrote, “Trump’s America does not care. It is unencumbered by historical memory. It recognizes no moral, political or strategic commitments. It feels free to pursue objectives without regard to the effect on allies or for that matter the world. It has no sense of responsibility to anything beyond itself.”

Conservative columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer, who recently died, had Trump’s number. “I used to think Trump was an 11-year old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval ad praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value— indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him. He is dangerously out of the mainstream and temperamentally unfit to command the nation.”

Steve Schmidt, senior campaign strategist and and advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, said “Enough!” last week when he wrote, “29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of the Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.”

Maybe, just maybe, Trump’s authoritarian regime will come crashing down. It is time.

David Treadwell, a Brunswick writer, welcomes commentary and suggestions for future “Just a Little Old” columns at [email protected].