Writing Future History

 THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, the entirety of which was arguably a crises and a disaster, certainly concluded in crisis and disaster, the final two weeks from January 6 to January 20. The lame duck president, hiding from the world after failing to execute his Capitol coup, knowing that negative consequences lurked in his future, his supporters meanwhile spinning ever more elaborate entangled cobwebs of anger, denial, and self deceit. History will kindly view Joe Biden as having stopped the bleeding. Although Trump supporters, currently still in their denial stage, often are heard to declare that Donald Trump will eventually be regarded as among America's greatest presidents, more likely he will soon and forever after be considered the worst. the constant barrage of lies from the Trump white House and the two impeachments won't help. The next half century is going to be, among other things, a desperate, frantic attempt by humanity to do something to mitigate climate change, which, if left unmitigated, will eventually prevent human civilization from continuing. Even now, this urgent necessity is becoming quite clear. I won't live long enough to ever know if the effort succeeds; few currently alive will; we can only send our best thoughts, hopes, and prayers forward in time to bless our descendants in their noble effort to undo the damage we did. But as the effort becomes ever more desperate, it will become increasingly apparent to future historians the harm climate change deniers in the United States were in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, in slowing the response of the world's most economically powerful nation. History will not treat them kindly, nor should it. American history textbooks generally don't devote much attention to presidential honesty, to articulating which presidents were honest, and which were not. Its a murky area, largely opinion, a potential intellectual historical quagmire the sort of which writers usually wisely steer clear. However, it is easier now with modern media technology than ever before for the masses to pay close attention to nearly everything a president says and does.Every day during the Trump administration president Trump's every word and deed was available for scrutiny by the American public, served  up on a flat screen big screen high definition silver platter.Every one of the more than thirty thousand presidential lies over a four year period, all the vicious slander and hate speech, all confirmed, all documented for history. After four years of this on a daily basis, why anyone of decent moral character would vote to reelect such a person is known only to those who so voted, assuming they know themselves.