The News-Times

2020 vision and a blessing in disguise

- By Paul Adinolfi Paul Adinolfi is a resident of Sandy Hook.

We don’t need a Mueller Report that is not redacted, or redacted — we already have a lifetime knowledge of the most unqualifie­d, unpresiden­tial president ever. He has made us miss Bush W. and Nixon.

It’s amazing and almost unfathomab­le that anyone is considerin­g Trump for 2020. It appears they don’t have 2020 vision, and have lost sight of the fact he is:

⏩ A confirmed fraud who paid $25 million to settle a lawsuit for scamming more than a thousand Americans — and is now facing over a dozen criminal investigat­ions.

⏩ Has not released his taxes (which could prove he has nothing to hide).

⏩ A confirmed adulterer who lies and makes falsehoods from morning ’til night.

⏩ Who not only promised everyone health care, but instead tries to take it away from those who have it.

⏩ Who told us he would clear the swamp in Washington, but instead fills it with environmen­tally unfriendly creatures.

⏩ He disparages and denigrates our press, and our Department­s of Justice, F.B.I., and C.I.A. and a wounded prisoner-of-war hero, and hurt and insulted his family, and belittled Gold Star parents — this from a man who avoided the Vietnam War.

He demonstrat­es we either have a Dumb Donald or a Deranged Donald as our president.

The only reason we still have this abominable political anomaly in the White House is because of the GOP and its leaders in Washington — they know Dangerous Donald better than we do and are keeping their heads in the sand.

However, sometimes when bad things happen — good things happen. Trump could be a blessing in disguise for America.

He unwittingl­y and indirectly has exposed the GOP in Washington for who they really represent and stand for, and the faults and flaws in our government branches that affect our democracy, from our presidenti­al, and congressio­nal, to our judicial systems.

He has shown us again (as Nixon did) the turmoil in our system of a president controllin­g our department­s of Justice and F.B.I. causes, and needs reforming.

The Republican­s, the party of Lincoln, turned their backs on him and welcomed the racist Dixiecrat segregatio­nist into the GOP in order to gain votes. While Trump didn’t initiate racism in the GOP, he exposed it.

The GOP has used racism and white dominance to gain power, and created an atmosphere that allowed Donald Trump, even though he was a “Damn Yankee” from New York, to become their “Great White Hope.” The fact that he was the undisputed leader of the racist Birther Society propelled him to beat out more than a dozen politicall­y experience­d Republican nominees.

Racism is why he had, and still has supporters — not because he was going to “clean out the swamp” in Washington, as the GOP would prefer you to believe.

Trump with the assistance of Mitch McConnell has helped expose the flaws in our Supreme Court and appointed two biased pro-Republican, pro-corporatio­n Supreme Court judges.

There should be no doubt the GOP is influenced by OnePercent­ers, and their Gun Lobby. We in Sandy Hook had a front row seat when Congress did not pass an innocuous Gun Background Check bill — even though 90 percent of our country wanted it.

The GOP is concerned in controllin­g the Supreme Court, to protect their OnePercent­ers’ corporatio­ns.

If we check the results of “Republican” justices’ rulings, we will find that they practicall­y always rule in favor of corporatio­ns.

Probably the only way to end this problem is to have equal number of justices appointed from both parties.

Having 10 justices in 2021 and appointing a “King Solomon” judge, such as Merrick Garland, would solve all these problems.

Let us not forget it was a Republican­biased Supreme Court, and our undemocrat­ic Electoral College system, that gave us Bush and Cheney, two never-ending wars, and the Great Recession that would have been the Great Depression Two if we didn’t have The Democrats’ socialist programs: Social Security, Medicare and Unemployme­nt Insurance!

It is hard to imagine that America and the world wouldn’t be a better place to live in today if Al Gore had been elected, and there had not been a Bush, or Trump. We would be still in the Paris Accord and making advances to prevent further global warming — and have more national gun safety laws.

Special Counsel Mueller’s investigat­ion was just one step before the N.Y. courts take Donald Trump out of Washington, D.C. and send him back to N.Y.C.

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