Win or lose this week, Donald Trump has already severely crippled this nation. We’re not just talking about his abject failure to combat COVID-19, which already has killed a quarter of a million Americans and is on course with renewed spikes to kill many more while the Trump administration takes the road of least resistance and mocks accepted precautions.
Nor are we talking about the president’s repeated sabotage (and his Republican Senate support to delay) any extension of COVID-19 economic aid to the millions left unemployed after the novel coronavirus began sweeping the country.
And we’re not talking about the racial and social unrest Trump repeatedly stoked. Or the more than 5,400 Latino immigrant children he allowed to be separated from their parents and caged at our southern border. Or the 545 of those children who are still in U.S. custody because the Trump administration didn’t make adequate preparation to relocate their parents, whom the administration deported.
We’re also not talking about the nearly 100 environmental and safety rules and laws that Trump and his idiots have repealed, rolled back or placed on track to scuttle – all while he also separated us from the Paris climate accord and while we keep watching California burn and the South flood.
We’re not even talking about the obscene tax break Trump pushed through to benefit himself, his family and the other wealthiest people in our country while the rest of us effectively make and keep less money than we did decades ago.