Coming To Senses

WHEN BARACK OBAMA was president, it became obvious that the people who hated him hated him excessively, far beyond anything appropriate merely by disagreeing with Obama's policies or philosophy.It seemed as if the haters hated Obama simply for being Obama,maybe in part for being black. A vaguely similar opposition confronts Trump, but his opponents can point to a never ending barrage of lies, vicious verbal attacks, and dubious policies emanating from the Trump White House. Obama inherited a bad economy and left Trump a good one; Trump inherited a good economy, and late in his first term presides over a country ravaged needlessly by disease and a subsequently collapsing economy. The disease is needless because with aggressive government intervention it could have been stopped in its early phase. Its almost as if the Trump supporters, the same people whol along with Trump himself spent eight years under Obama falsely claiming that Obama was not an American, do not care about Trump's constant lying, his refusal to accept the basic scientific reality of climate change, and his responsibility for allowing the epidemic to get out of control by denying its importance instead of taking aggressive action. One can imagine what the Obama haters would have thought if Obama had sent federal troops into American citeis to disrupt tea party demonstrations. Climate change Trump and most of his supporters still insist on falsely asserting is a hoax, of liberal media or Chinese manufacture, absurdly. The Covid 19 epidemic, as it kills hundreds of thousands of Americans, they are grudgingly beginning to accept as real, beginning to admit that not only does it exist, but that it is helpful to take basic measures to combat it, such as wearing face masks in public and social distancing, and refraining from gathering together in large numbers. So it may be that Trump and his cultish supporters are starting the long and difficult process of coming to their collective senses. They still do nto believe in climate change or acknowledge the thousands of Trump lies, but at least they are starting to wear face masks, and Trump, at long last, admits that Barack Obama was born in the United States.