America suffering Trump hangover

Donald Trump’s presidency was a disaster. It started with a lie — “the biggest inauguration crowd in history” — and it ended in ignominy: skulking out of town to undeserved, selfawarded honors and pardons for associates who committed crimes against American democracy.

It was four years of 24/7 grifting and dishonesty, plundering of the nation’s wealth for personal gain, untold violations of the law from the emoluments clause in the Constitution to the Hatch Act.

The promise of “all the best people” ended up being an army of misfits. Shattered reputations, hundreds of thousands needlessly ill or dead, refusal to admit a loss in an election, armed assault on the pillars of democracy, and now the broken (or never-worked) Operation Warp Speed needs to be renamed Operation Speed Bump.

For Trump, his term of being drunk on power is over; for America, the hangover is just beginning.

— Douglas McClelland

Brentwood