Posted by (+3006) 2 years ago
Trump’s legacy is the damage he has done to American democracy. The mobs of Trump supporters, incited by him, laying siege to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was the culmination of the destruction he occasioned upon our democratic republic. This wreckage includes his success in efforts to violate established norms, emasculate and demonize the media, promote lying, cause the authority of our courts to be questioned, and finally put an end to our reputation of the peaceful transfer of power. He did this by rejecting the results of our presidential election that passed every serious test of its legitimacy in more than sixty (60) of his frivolous lawsuits. What really distinguishes this incident of American shame is that it came from the Oval Office rather than from foreign involvement.
Another defining contribution to his legacy of failure is the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak and subsequent spread were China’s failure. However, Trump’s inept and negligent response explains why close to a half-million Americans will have died of the disease by the time he is forced from the White House. Trump’s failed response caused millions of jobs and businesses to disappear (some permanently), millions of students to fall behind, and the world to lose respect for America.
Trump’s legacy of failure includes a foreign policy that undermined America’s position in the world. North Korea added to its nuclear stockpile and improved its missile capability while Kim Jong-un played Trump like a fiddle. Iran reduced the time it would need to develop nuclear weapons following our exit from the 2015 nuclear pact. Russia, Syria, and Iran increased their influence across the Middle East as a result of Trump’s timid failed policies, not the least of which is his stature as a Putin toady.
How long will it take this country to make its return from the Trump abyss?
Another defining contribution to his legacy of failure is the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak and subsequent spread were China’s failure. However, Trump’s inept and negligent response explains why close to a half-million Americans will have died of the disease by the time he is forced from the White House. Trump’s failed response caused millions of jobs and businesses to disappear (some permanently), millions of students to fall behind, and the world to lose respect for America.
Trump’s legacy of failure includes a foreign policy that undermined America’s position in the world. North Korea added to its nuclear stockpile and improved its missile capability while Kim Jong-un played Trump like a fiddle. Iran reduced the time it would need to develop nuclear weapons following our exit from the 2015 nuclear pact. Russia, Syria, and Iran increased their influence across the Middle East as a result of Trump’s timid failed policies, not the least of which is his stature as a Putin toady.
How long will it take this country to make its return from the Trump abyss?