Life moves so quickly today, the news on constant fast-forward, that even the most profound of moments pass in an instant.

And perhaps the most profound moment of our lifetimes just passed by.

Donald Trump – who was framed as a Russian asset, impeached twice, spied on, the target of a nearly two-year sham Mueller probe, then hit last election year with a likely coordinated bombardment of civil and criminal cases aimed at draining him financially, imprisoning him and smearing him – spoke triumphantly Friday at the very Department of Justice behind much of the vast conspiracy against him.

The man who singlehandedly defeated the most corrupt government in U.S. history planted his flag firmly in its toxic soil.

It was not just a historic moment — the moment President Trump announced that the corrupt takeover of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies had failed. It was an infinitely significant moment in American and human history.

Why? Because it heralded the victory of one beleaguered, badgered and besieged individual over inarguably the most dangerous U.S. government in the nation’s 248 years.

Such a man-vs.-machine triumph is something America, the land of individualism and individual liberty, used to celebrate. Such a frightening perversion of government to destroy someone used to be the stuff of Hollywood fantasy, in which we always pulled for the hero, not the dark forces of government.

Not today. We’ll have to leave that up to history, one supposes.

For now, it’s obviously up to Trump himself to make his case and set the historical record straight.

“We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls,” Trump said in his DOJ speech. “Unfortunately, in recent years a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations.

“They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people. …

“They spied on my campaign; launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another; broke the law on a colossal scale; persecuted my family, staff and supporters; raided my home, Mar-a-Lago; and did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the president of the United States. …

“They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and Third World country. But in the end, the thugs failed and the truth won. Freedom won. Justice won. Democracy won. And above all, the American people won. 

“There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked. That’s what they were doing at a level that’s never been seen before.”

In short, in surviving this unrelenting, unprecedented political shelling, Trump appears to have saved the republic itself – as long as he and his fearless Cabinet take a military-grade flamethrower to the FBI and the intelligence agencies.

In typical fashion, the legacy media not only missed this moment but mischaracterized it. Politico couldn’t get past thinking Trump’s speech was nothing more than “bellicose.” The New York Times lamented “Trump’s Grievance-Filled Speech Makes Clear His Quest for Vengeance Is Personal.”

Wouldn’t it be personal for you – if the government had gone through your family’s bedrooms looking for dirt on you, in just one of the attempts to destroy you?

But again, that misses the entire point, and totally misses the profundity of this moment – that pivotal point in American history when a corrupted government was routed by one indefatigable individual.

Who just handed us our country back.