Donald Trump is Destroying America On His Way Out
(MEDIUM) umair haque, November 22, 2020
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Caligula, reclining and being fed grapes, installed his horse in the Senate. Donald Trump is golfing while America collapses.
Like so many tyrants before him — would-be and true — Trump, in the throes of inevitable defeat, has become a mad king. He’s lost the plot. He’s lashing out in impotent rage, when he’s not sulking in infantile resentment. All that while a desperate America thrashes in the throes of crisis after crisis. He’s every bit the equivalent of a modern day Caligula or Nero. And like so many mad kings before him, the damage he’s doing as he loses power may be even greater than the damage he did when he had it.
That’s because that is what mad kings tend to want to do: inflict as much damage as they can, on their way out. On the societies they think failed them, on the nations which have rejected them, on the people they have always resented and hated and had contempt for. Never do you the truth of a person like a tyrant during the end of his time in power. It’s like a bomb going off, over and over again usually — and that’s what America faces now, as Trump loses his hold on power, but abuses whatever he has left to do as much damage to American, and Americans, as he possibly can.
Let’s start with Covid. Maybe you think I’m depressing? Maybe you think I overstate things. Good, don’t take it from me. Take it from the Atlantic, that establishment bastion of WASPy understatement. According to them, Trump’s response to Covid amounts to “negligent homicide.†It’s not an unfair description. Americans don’t seem to grasp, really, just how devastating Covid has been. Maybe that’s because they’re busy, wearily living through the nightmare.
Source: https://eand.co/donald-trump-is-destroying-america-on-his-way-out-258a2b54d053
(MEDIUM) November 22, 2020
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Caligula, reclining and being fed grapes, installed his horse in the Senate. Donald Trump is golfing while America collapses.
Like so many tyrants before him — would-be and true — Trump, in the throes of inevitable defeat, has become a mad king. He’s lost the plot. He’s lashing out in impotent rage, when he’s not sulking in infantile resentment. All that while a desperate America thrashes in the throes of crisis after crisis. He’s every bit the equivalent of a modern day Caligula or Nero. And like so many mad kings before him, the damage he’s doing as he loses power may be even greater than the damage he did when he had it.
That’s because that is what mad kings tend to want to do: inflict as much damage as they can, on their way out. On the societies they think failed them, on the nations which have rejected them, on the people they have always resented and hated and had contempt for. Never do you the truth of a person like a tyrant during the end of his time in power. It’s like a bomb going off, over and over again usually — and that’s what America faces now, as Trump loses his hold on power, but abuses whatever he has left to do as much damage to American, and Americans, as he possibly can.
Let’s start with Covid. Maybe you think I’m depressing? Maybe you think I overstate things. Good, don’t take it from me. Take it from the Atlantic, that establishment bastion of WASPy understatement. According to them, Trump’s response to Covid amounts to “negligent homicide.†It’s not an unfair description. Americans don’t seem to grasp, really, just how devastating Covid has been. Maybe that’s because they’re busy, wearily living through the nightmare.
Source: https://eand.co/donald-trump-is-destroying-america-on-his-way-out-258a2b54d053