There’s nothing that they won’t touch. Their intent appears to be so blatantly ruinous as to stagger the mind.
Bringing coal back? Drill, baby, drill? Shifting away from renewables—unlike much of the rest of the developed world? Refusing to take the lead and believe sound scientific data regarding what we’re doing to the planet? Just handing the keys to China when it comes to providing the world with, among other things, solar panels—something we invented back in 1954 and have seemingly conceded to our No. 1 strategic competitor and ideological enemy?
Pushing a heavy-handed, disingenuous, and narrow-minded version of Christianity? Burning bridges left and right, and striking up alliances with dictators and oligarchs and oppressive regimes everywhere? Thinking we can isolate ourselves and go it alone? Doubling down on haphazard and careless communication of military operations?
Reducing once-proud agencies and personnel to less effective and more chaotic and confused versions of themselves? Attempting to smash the kneecaps of higher education and freedom of expression, freedom of speech; withdrawing funding for important scientific research, threatening to defund Medicaid and other pieces of whatever social safety net we’ve been able to muster, destroying USAID, hobbling critical drug and disease research by withdrawing funding and firing the legitimate experts in their fields; making snap decisions about who’s worthy of citizenship, deporting others—plucking them off the streets without warning, and sending them to detention centers or prison without due process?
In general, being the worst possible version of elected leadership many would have trouble conjuring in their worst nightmares. Every day there’s another dagger to the heart. Every day, when we think we’ve heard and seen everything, Trump and the rot around him come up with the next atrocious executive order or mindless statement or other indication that they really are inept, hate-filled, paranoid, and soulless. Embodied evil.
And they seem to be reveling in their awfulness, loving every minute of it.
This is what a vote for Trump has gotten us: a person whose only motivations were and are vengeance and winning at all costs, along with what looks to be a robust attempt to render America unrecognizable.
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