Surviving Trump Part I

DEMONSTRABLY, DONALD TRUP'S PRESIDENCY did great damage to the United States. The mere fact that such an unqualified person of such low morality and intellectual ability got elected to the presidency, much less the dog catchery, should alram all Americans, and motivate them to put in place safeguards to ensure that such a national disaster never happens again. The constitution, including the electoral college, was designed to provide such safeguards. Obviously, they proved inadequate. The damage Turmp did did not end with his removal from office. It endures, but can be repaired. Donald Trump effecitvely turned the Republican party into a criminal organization, a cult following which even the few Republicans who possess any integrity refuse, in their cowardice and lust for power, to openly oppose. Trump to this day encourages and enables blatant liars, outrageous conspiracy theorists, racists, and thugs. Trump promised an active, competent administration willing and able to bypass Washington's traditional culture, to "drain the swamp" and directly improve the lives of ordinary working Americans. Long forgotten American men and woman would take back their ountry unhder his leadership, create a booming economy with lower taxes for all American working class folks, and force American corporations to bring back jobs that they had outsourced to other countries. He told us that he would, through his economic and tax policies, lift up nearly all Americans at his own personal expense; he would personally sacrifice, that others might prosper. He promised, often: "I will be your champion, and I won't be playing golf". He ended p playing golf three times a week, at taxpayer expense, costing us millions of dollars in secret service protection and amenities. He promised to "make America gerat again", as if somehow our country had lost its greatness, and could only regain it through his leadership, a preposterous notion on its face. Preposterous, narcissistic, and unpatriotic, even traitorous. Instead, Trump became the first president since Herbert Hoover to leave office with an economy in which the average American was less proeperous than when he took office. Instead of bypassing Wall Street elites and the Washington political establishment in a great crusade to upfift and empower millions of ordinary, powerless Americans, he did the exact opposite: he filled the swamp, his administration, with Wall Street billionaire types, while eliminating or ignoring regulations which could contain the economically predatory behavior of those wealthy elites. We the American people got from the Trump administration a criminal corruption machine inundated with profiteering, self-dealing, and conflicts of interest, pupulated by incompetent, unqualified, billionaire cabinet secretaries and agency heads, people who, once in power, did their very best to destory the departments which they were entrusted to oversee, working to achieve exactly the opposite of their responsibilities. Trump did nothing to improve our infrastructure (Biden already has), put more trust in foreign dictators than in his own intelligence gathering agencies and law enforcement communities. Trump got elected by knowlingly, willingly, happily accepting massive campaign assistance from Russia, a crime for which he should hve been impeached, removed, convicted, and incarcerated. He so completely mismanaged the pandemic by denying its severity and sprading ridiculously false information about it that it cost hundreds of thousands of American lives. And that is just the "tip of the iceberg", as we like to say. Most alarming of all is that Trump is still very much out and about, on the scene, wanting to regain power by whatever means, legal or not, works, and his followers continue to ignore moral decency and reality in their support of their pathologically criminal cult leader.