Trump, Attacking Children

THROUGHOUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, the president has demonstrated a perverse tendency to sink to new moral depths on an almost daily basis, well documented. Once again, the pattern repeats. As the great American epidemic becomes worse by the day, due largely to Trump's dismissive, incompetent, chaotic leadership, This monstrous person is threatening to expel all foreign students from the country who attend universities which conduce classes only online this fall. What have these students done to deserve this, is the obvious question. We invite hundreds of thousands of scholars from all over the world to come to America to study, then we kick them out, in the midst of their studies. Foreign students who study in America are notoriously superior to American students. They work hard, make better grades. Many of them remain in the U.S. after graduation to pursue successful careers in the professions, contributing immensely to America's culture, economy, and diversity. Harvard and M.I.T.., fully aware of this, are fighting back on their behalf, having filed lawsuits against the United States government, aka Trump, alleging accurately that the government is trying to force them to open their campuses under unsafe conditions. The lawsuits do not go far enough. They should become class action suits, including as plaintiffs every college and university in  freedom's land, and every public school system. The lawsuit should be aimed directly at President Trump personally, accusing teh president of fraud and malicious abuse of power, asking the court to not only convict Trump of these crimes, but to issue a court order confining him to a mental institution for psychiatric evaluation and treatment, for his own protection, and for the welfare and safety of the entire country..Obviously, universities having classes online is a reasonable way to stop the spread of the virus. Online education is not as good as in person classroom instruction, for many reasons, but its much better than nothing, and, under current circumstances, called for. Compounding his perversity, the president insists that American public schools all open for classroom instruction in the fall as if the demagogue has any say in the matter, which of course is entirely the decision of state and local authorities. But event his isn't the worst of it. Trump is accusing anyone of resisting opening schools of doing so for political reasons, as if the only motive were to make him look bad, to discredit the leadership pf his administration, as if the virus didn't exist, rather than the reality, that it is ravaging the country more severely every day, due to Trump's inept leadership. It must be difficult to believe that anyone would care to protect children from death and disease, since he himself has no interest in doing so. In fact, every move Trump makes is calculated only to enhance his personal popularity and reelection chances, every decision and statement this gangster makes is intended only to serve his own political purpose, and to pretend that the virus is not dangerous when in fact it is killing tens of thousands of Americans is quite in keeping with Trump's mentally ill personality. It would have been nearly impossible to believe only a few short years ago that such a monstrous person of Hitlerian characteristics could ever have been elected president in the United States. And of course, to blame are his supporters, who are no better than he, and , in a very real sense, far worse.