Because I’m concerned about my mental state, I hope I was the only one watching yesterday’s January 6 hearing, listening to the blow-by-blow breakdown of that “unhinged” December 18 White House meeting and havng a kind of acid flashback vision of the Wannsee Conference.

And yes, I realize this is an invocation if you will of Godwin’s Law.

But really people, how do you not jump to Reinhard Heydrich and the deranged zealots of the Third Reich while trying to comprehend another collection of … deranged zealots … trying to sell a former reality TV performer a military-assisted coup to overthrow an election and seize control of the United States? Lakeside Berlin 1942, or the Oval Office 2020, both in their way were seeking a … final solution.

Some day … soon … I hope Armando Ianucci, director of such classics as “In the Loop” and “The Death Of Stalin” (and behind the scenes of “Veep” and “Succession”) stages a verbatim film of this episode of the MAGA Reich, circa 12/18/20. (There have seen several films about the 90-minute Wansee Conference. I like this ’80s German version, although the Kenneth Branaugh version is also quite good.)

Long past the point where you thought the clown show train wreck of the Donald Trump presidency … (and the mere sound of those three words together still sounds like something out of “Idiocracy”) … couldn’t get any more berserk and farcical we have … The Overstock.com guy sitting in the Oval Office trying to sell the failed casino operator on a plan for the army to march in and grab voting machines. Fraudulent machines manipulated by Italian satellites controlling thermostats clogged with Chinese bamboo … or something like that.

Jeeeeeezus keeee-rist.

One of my criticisms of the pundits gasping and hyper-ventilating anew at yesterday’s December 18 tick-tock was the pervasive suggestion that the likes of Mr. Overstock (with Minnesota’s own MyPillow Guy only a phone call away) Sidney “Kraken” Powell and Mike “Fifth!” Flynn were only the dregs of the Trump White House “advisory council”. The adults had left the building.

Please! That crew was there only because others far more culpable in sustaining Trump had — at long, long last — shrunk back in shame and out of fear of extreme legal peril. And those would be people like Pat Cipollone, the uber-Catholic father of 10 and friend of Laura Ingraham who had no problem with Trumplandia, and made no effort to provide testimony in the second impeachment, until it was obvious he too was going to have to wear an LfT badge — Lunatic for Trump — on his chest for eternity if he didn’t show up and finally spill.

And along with him throughout the Trump Circus Dementia we had the likes of Peter bleepin Navarro who is easily as “unhinged”, as the kids say, as the Kraken or Lt. Gen. Flynn … and possibly the Overstock.com Guy as well. And — but wait there’s more! — let’s never forget transparent grifters like Ryan Zinke, Wilbur Ross, Scott Pruitt, Steve Mnuchin, Mnuchin’s glam-sucking wife, Sean Spicer, Kayleigh McEnaney, Donny Jr’s shrieking girl-friend, Jared, Steve mother-bleepin’ Bannon, Dan Scavino, Jason Miller, Stephen Miller, Kellyanne “alternative acts” and on … and on … and on … and not ending with … Bill Barr.

No satirist could invent a more farcical, corrupt and incompetent collection of impausibilities, (with Barr exempted from the “incompetent” charge.)

But all humor and Godwin-like references aside, the chilling part of this whole clown show is that, A: The Trump fools almost succeeded throwing it back to the state legislatures (many — like Wisconsin and South Dakota — populated by more of their ilk), and B: They’re not done yet.

The key takeaway — as millions have said before — is that Trump and these people were idiots. Truly and factually, based on the receipts we now have. They were incompetent at being nefarious, and they were buffoonish on top of it.

But … post-Trump Trumpists like … pick one … Ron DeSantis, Tom Cotton or Josh Hawley have taken notes, have no need for nakedly batshit zealots like Mike Flynn or The Kraken … or The Overstock Guy. The so-called “competent Trump” characters squeezing into the starting gate are far, far more serious and disciplined about force-feeding white Christian MAGA ‘Murica all the authoritarian oppression (of others) they can swallow.

And that’ll make a much less hilarious movie.