Need rest from chaos

Four more years of someone who wraps himself in the flag, shreds the Constitution, uses the Bible, a church, and the White House as Hollywood stage props and pays virtually no taxes?

Let’s see, over 216,000 dead in seven months from covid-19 plus over 7 million infected and still no national plan. The economy is in the worst shape since the Great Depression and we have a president who sells fear, lies (over 20,000 in less than four years) and national division. Trump inherited a growing economy. He didn’t create it as he claims. Three other presidents since Eisenhower had better economies.

What if Trump had just told us the truth about the virus in early February as he did Bob Woodward and then marshalled the full weight of the federal government instead of pretending for six weeks the virus was not that big a deal and would disappear? How many lives (and jobs) would have been saved? Can you imagine FDR three weeks after Pearl Harbor turning the war over to the then 48 governors?

I believe Trump, with the help from Mitch McConnell, has undermined our 244-year-old republic that was once, as President Reagan said, a “shining city on the hill” for all the world to see and copy. Instead, “only I can fix it” Trump is destroying the very public institutions that have served us. His attacks on our voting system alone are doing more damage than Russia, China and Iran combined. It’s not about MAGA; it’s about a pathological liar and his ego.

I served in the U.S. military for over 30 years, and anyone who refuses to take responsibility and always blames others would not have lasted a month in any unit I served in.

Four more years of chaos and lying? Wake up, America!

JIM BODENHAMER

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