Surviving Trump Part III

DONALD TRUMP has repeatedly cheated America, and continues to do so, a fact about which his followers, entranced, mesmerized in their cult, are oblivious, or unconcerned. He cheated Amerian during the 2016 campaign by working "hand in glove" with Russian operatives in investing foreign money in his winning election campaign, an election he won illegally. He cheated us by restricting the investigation of Rober Mueller, covering up the Russian assistance to his campaign. Attorney General Wm. Barr served as Trump's cover man, aiding Trump in his cover ups. Trump cheated his supporters most of all, by promising to help them overcome decades of economic stagnation by giving them tax cuts and reducing the control over them by Wall Street billionaires and corporations. Instead, he cut taxes on the billionaires and their corporations, leaving the working folks high and dry. Under Trump, ninety percent of the American people experienced relatively lower wages. The Democrats need to convince the American people that they have the answers and means to defeat Trumpism by revealing it as the scam that it is. Thus far, they have failed to do this. Trump promised American workers tremendous economic growth, but under Trump, growth was far less than it had been under Obama. When Trump left office, the United States had one hundred and fifty thousand fewer manufacturing jobs than when he took office, because Trump presided over corporate outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries. Trump cheated America out of justice by pardoning criminals Paul Manafort, General Michael Flynm, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, among many others. Trump bowed to foreign dictators like the dictator of North Korea and Vladimer Putin, and gave praise to murderous autocrats, shaming America and abandoning basic human rights. The stain to America's honor may be eternal. Trump's flagrant racism emboldened millions of right wing extremists, white supremacists and racists. He called some of them "very fine people". Far right terrorists defended their actions in court by claiming that they were inspired by Trump. Trump cheated us out of the integrity normally associated with high office by turning the presidency into a personal money making scheme, for himself and for his family, hitting up taxpayers for paying for his lavish lifestyle, and raking in two hundred and fifty million dollars from naive donors for his "legal defense fund", in order to file frivolous lawsuits in his insane attempt to use the court system to steal the election from Joe Biden. He spent about nine million of the money on laywers, and pocketed the rest. He let it be known that to gain access to the oval office, it would be necessary to do business with his many businesses and business interests, such as his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House. Even the most devout members of Trump's cult of personalilty should by now realize that he has sold them a bill of goods, and contiues to do so. Meanwhile, Trump offered no infrastructure improvement plan, no replacement for or improvement upon Obamacare, both of which he promised when elected. Meanwhile, the Republican party has become, and remains, Trump's cult, utterly under his control, a party bereft of moral or intellectual integrity. But, incredibly enogh, all this damage can be repaired. It will require, however, strong measures, and funadmanetal changes to our political system.