This written in a Irish newspaper about the ‘GREAT” United States of America under President Donald Trump…….
Fintan O’Toole: “Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.”
“However bad things are for most other rich democracies, it is hard not to feel sorry for Americans. Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful.”
“Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode? The US went into the coronavirus crisis with immense advantages: precious weeks of warning about what was coming, the world’s best concentration of medical and scientific expertise, effectively limitless financial resources, a military complex with stunning logistical capacity and most of the world’s leading technology corporations. Yet it managed to make itself the global epicentre of the pandemic.”…
The idea of “American exceptionalism “ will likely be a victim of the pandemic.
America is always more exceptional than its “leaders ” at any given time.
Ok….
I’ll buy your view CG….
For the MOST part….
Well the leaders of one party have denigrated science, medicine, education, etc for decades in order to appease the 1% and conservative Christians.
Want to restore American exceptionalism? Throw the whole party out!
And the daily exhibit of Donald Trump’s ineptness…
The problem is ,of course, that America is seen to the rest of the world through it’s leaders.
And in this major crisis of our time, we are led by Donald Trump.
Sort of says it all.
Led????
That’s “Miss Led” to you, young man ! !
😳!
Yep, and Mike Pence completely disregarding the rule at Mayo Clinic today that all visitors wear masks is proof of that.
Republicans need to pay at the ballot box for this. At every level.
Never was there a riper time for the President to make a world-wide Apology Tour, and never was there a man less ready or able to conduct it.
Make America Well Again
Say WHAT?????
Apology????