From the Jan. 6 insurrectionists to George Santos to Honduran ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Donald Trump has made an art of opening the jailhouse doors.

Marigolds are survivors, deterring deer and cold and coming back year after year when the seedpods are left among the leaf litter at the end of the growing season.

The bicentennial year, 1976, was a high water mark for everything the current American president and his followers love to loathe.