The aftermath of the 2020 Nationwide Election has revealed Donald Trump as much more of a menace to American Democracy than many people had realized. It clearly demonstrated him to be a psychopathic spoiled brat, who by no means ought to have been elected to the workplace of President of america.
As a substitute of performing the duties of that workplace, he has devoted all of his consideration to denying the end result of the election and trying reverse it — plus his standard lies and tweets — and golf.
Trump’s 306-232 victory over Hillary Clinton was, in his phrases a “landslide,” however victory by Joe Biden by the identical margin in 2020 was not, and in Trump’s distorted imaginative and prescient was “rigged.”
Despite election end result certifications, recounts and courtroom rejections of all of Trump’s and his lackey, Rudy Giuliani’s efforts, the 2020 election was essentially the most safe in our nation’s historical past — in anticipation of the probability of a problem from Trump if he misplaced.
The Democratic majority within the Home of Representatives ought to impeach Trump for the “high crime” of violating his presidential oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” together with his try and invalidate licensed outcomes of the election.
The Senate Republicans would then be compelled to declare whether or not their allegiance is to the Republican Get together, or to america of America. The latter selection wouldn’t enable Trump to “hold and enjoy any Office of honor,” which might be effectively deserved.
President Trump has additionally dedicated the excessive crime of subjecting People to greater than 12 million circumstances and over 1 / 4 of one million deaths resulting from his grossly incompetent mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic.
First he advised us we had nothing to fret about, it might be passed by April. Then, when it was breaking out all around the nation, he dumped it on the states, leaving them to compete with one another for medical provides, driving up their price. He ignored the recommendation from medical doctors, deriding their name for masking and calling them “idiots,” and claiming that it might simply go away.
And now that it has come roaring again, he has chosen to disregard it, directing all of his consideration to conning individuals into voting for him. His inaction has tanked the financial system, costing 10 million individuals their jobs, and growing the nationwide debt by a number of billion {dollars}.
Trump’s international coverage can be a catastrophe. He has alienated all the western European nations by trashing NATO, berating their leaders, pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris local weather change settlement and the WHO, totally gutting their religion in American management.
The one nation he has happy is Russia, due to his slavish admiration of Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump is an inveterate liar. However what is really disturbing is how he has been capable of win over so many People to just accept his lies as reality. He has adopted Adolph Hitler’s playbook by which he took over the Weimar Republic in 1933: for those who inform large lies loudly sufficient and infrequently sufficient, individuals will consider them, particularly for those who play on and amplify their fears and hatreds. With Hitler it was the Western Powers and the Jews; with Trump it’s the liberals, African and Hispanic People, and all immigrants.
Again within the 1930s, whenever you went to the films you bought a cartoon, a newsreel and a brief comedy all along with the principle function. I can bear in mind seeing the wildly cheering crowds round Hitler. The yelling crowds on the Trump rallies have been a daunting carbon copy of the adulation of Hitler.
There may be additionally a monetary cause for Trump’s determined try to stay in workplace. The (in his phrases) “great businessman and deal maker” has some overwhelming money owed coming due — $300 million in private loans and $900 million in actual property debt — from which he’s protected whereas he’s the President.
Presidential constraint is essentially the most important ingredient for the right functioning of our political system. Belief is the glue of a profitable free society. Worry is the foreign money of the autocrat. Trump was the right instance of a real autocrat. Expertise is his good friend; science is his enemy.
America’s greatest traditions have been below assault from our personal president. Democracy can not survive in a swamp of mutual dislike. I hope we have now discovered a lesson; we are going to see what the longer term brings.
“As I See It” seems from time to time within the Put up Unbiased and at postindependent.com. Hal Sundin lives in Glenwood Springs and is a retired environmental and structural engineer. Contact him at [email protected]
