The conservative columnists writes in a Washington Post Op-Ed that Trump has done for America what he has done with mostly EVERYTHING else he has touched…
Fucked it Up….
Never has a U.S. election come at such a moment of national mortification. In April 1970, President Richard M. Nixon told a national television audience that futility in Vietnam would make the United States appear to the world as “a pitiful, helpless giant.” Half a century later, America, for the first time in its history, is pitied.
Not even during the Civil War, when the country was blood-soaked by a conflict involving enormous issues, was it viewed with disdainful condescension as it now is, and not without reason: Last Sunday, Germany (population 80.2 million) had 159 new cases of covid-19; Florida (population 21.5 million) had 15,300.
Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral. This spiral has not reached its nadir, but at least it has reached a point where worse is helpful, and worse can be confidently expected.
The nation’s floundering government is now administered by a gangster regime. It is helpful to have this made obvious as voters contemplate renewing the regime’s lease on the executive branch. Roger Stone adopted the argot of B-grade mobster movies when he said he would not “roll on” Donald Trump. By commuting Stone’s sentence, Stone’s beneficiary played his part in this down-market drama, showing gratitude for Stone’s version of omertà (the Mafia code of silence), which involved lots of speaking but much lying. Because pandemic prevents both presidential candidates from bouncing around the continent like popcorn in a skillet, the electorate can concentrate on other things, including Trump’s selection of friends such as Stone and Paul Manafort, dregs from the bottom of the Republican barrel.
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history,” wrote Don DeLillo in his sprawling 1997 novel “Underworld” about America in the second half of the 20th century. Today, there is a vast longing for respite from the 21st century, which — before the pandemic, two inconclusive wars and the Great Recession — began with a presidential election that turned on 537 Florida votes and was not decided until a Dec. 12, 2000, Supreme Court decision. Given Trump’s reckless lying and the supine nature of most Republican officeholders, it is imperative that the Nov. 3 result be obvious that evening….
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I like Wills use of the term”gangster regime” to describe Trump and his toadies.
In the future, every person who served in this administration should be referred to as a cog in that “gangster regime.”
This would include two assumed future Republican presidential candidates, Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley.
Haley is now embroiled in a mini controversy in S.C. with University of S.C. National Champion Women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley.Staley has harshly criticized Haley for supporting Georgia Sen. Kelly Loefflers denunciation of Black Lives Matter .
USC fans ,who have little to cheer about in sports are unusually proud of Staley ,who has produced a national championship and whose teams are around the top in Women’s collegiate basketball.
Any chance of a link on Haley Jack?
Trump has demoted campaign manager Brad Parscale out of that role.