Sick of Winning

I ran across an excellent, brief article on this President and our current situation and had to share.

Sick of Winning

Just a portion of the article:

With the advent of the coronavirus, we are all – quite literally – sick of all this “winning.” The Trump administration has proven itself uniquely incapable of effectively slowing and stopping COVID-19, with the president’s often corrupt and always narcissistic war on technocrats and his penchant for conspiracies and/or “hoaxes,” leaving the world’s wealthiest country tragically unprepared. Many more Americans have died as a result. And as Trump tries to engineer another “win” by prematurely “re-opening the economy” and inciting protests in states with whose governors he feuds, there is a great risk that many more will continue to do so.

There is a deep irony at work here. Trump is America’s first viral president, a showman/conman candidate who married the old political tools of misinformation and ethnic grievance with new social media to spread his pop ethno-nationalism among voters in red and purple states. And now a real virus has emerged: Not an ephemeral, superficial artifact of the internet age but a biological, seemingly immutable pathogen that is as fundamental as life and death. As real as Trump is fake; as deep as Trumpism is shallow.

So much for winning; in fact, America is clearly losing. 

And, hopefully, we’re sick of it.

I think and certainly hope this is at least part of what the author is referring:

Study: Elderly Trump voters dying of coronavirus could cost him in November

Mark Y. Rosenberg is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs