The Trumpster Takes More Unquestionable--and Deserved--Hits Today

There is an excellent and true and very fair op/ed piece in today's Sunday New York Times by Nicholas Kristof American voters should see.

America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’

In its destruction of American lives, treasure and well-being, this pandemic marks the greatest failure of U.S. governance since Vietnam.

One of the most lethal leadership failures in modern times unfolded in South Africa in the early 2000s as AIDS spread there under President Thabo Mbeki.

Mbeki scorned science, embraced conspiracy theories, dithered as the disease spread and rejected lifesaving treatments. His denialism cost about 330,000 lives, a Harvard study found.

None of us who wrote scathingly about that debacle ever dreamed that something similar might unfold in the United States. But today, health experts regularly cite President Trump as an American Mbeki.

“We’re unfortunately in the same place,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at U.C.L.A. “Mbeki surrounded himself with sycophants and cost his country hundreds of thousands of lives by ignoring science, and we’re suffering the same fate.”

I can't recommend the piece enough.

Not done there, the Times added this.

R.I.P., G.O.P.

The Party of Lincoln had a good run. Then came Mr. Trump.

Of all the things President Trump has destroyed, the Republican Party is among the most dismaying.

“Destroyed” is perhaps too simplistic, though. It would be more precise to say that Mr. Trump accelerated his party’s demise, exposing the rot that has been eating at its core for decades and leaving it a hollowed-out shell devoid of ideas, values or integrity, committed solely to preserving its own power even at the expense of democratic norms, institutions and ideals...

The final op/ed piece I'll mention here today from the Times is this from Maureen Dowd.

King Kong Trump, Losing His Grip

A steaming mad president is running out of steam.

"Biden, the empath;

Trump, the sociopath."

You can only let King Kong, as Don McGahn, Trump’s first White House counsel, dubbed his former boss, smash up the metropolis for so long.

It seems this President, his White House and administration have all given up, too.

White House chief of staff: 'We are not going to control the pandemic'

Meanwhile, this news hit today.

Members of Pence’s Inner Circle Test Positive for Coronavirus

5 people of the Vice President's staff including his Chief of Staff have now tested positive for the coronavirus. Added to that, the Vice President is continuing to campaign across the nation, in spite of this development.

Pence Denounced for 'Grossly Negligent' Decision to Keep Campaigning Despite Exposure to Top Aide With Covid-19

Vote, folks.  In 9 days or sooner, vote.   And vote blue.

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