It was a rough night in Louisiana -- or as they say down there -- "Looziana." Hurricane Laura rolled in in the wee small hours of the morning. The National Hurricane Centre warned that Laura was "unsurvivable" and "castastrophic." But Donald Trump's party went on. And once again, Dana Milbank writes, he is a man without a plan:
He didn’t create the coronavirus, but he made its impact on the United States worse than in any other country because he had no plan to combat it. More than six months after the virus surfaced, he said his administration was “in the process of developing a strategy” to fight it.
He didn’t cause the economic collapse, but he worsened it because he didn’t have a long-term plan to soften the blow. Congressional Democrats offered him an election-year gift of a multitrillion-dollar stimulus package, but he walked away because Republicans thought it too generous. Now millions of unemployed Americans are seeing government help evaporate.
He didn’t invent police brutality, but he worsened tensions because he didn’t have a plan (or a desire) to fix racism in policing. Instead he demonized racial-justice demonstrators, sent in federal police who inflamed violence and, at this week’s convention, glorified gunmen who confronted demonstrators. The deadly scene this week in Kenosha, Wis., is the latest byproduct of the escalation.
Trump didn’t cause Hurricane Laura, but the storm highlights his lack of a plan to lessen climate change, to diversify the nation’s energy supply (major oil and gas facilities are in Laura’s crosshairs) or to prepare a muscular government response.
The evidence of what Trump called "American Carnage" is everywhere. And he is its cause. The only way to remedy the situation is for American voters to become the Big Bad Wolf of the children's fable.
They may not blow his house down. But they must blow him out of the White House.
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4 comments:
Um, as I recall it, the Big Bad Wolf fails to blow down the brick house and ends up in a pot over the fire. That sure sounds like what America's piggies have planned for those who are hungry for change.
Cap
Point well taken, Cap. Perhaps the Big Bad Wolf lives in the White House. If he loses, he won't be boiled in a pot. But he will be boiled in effigy.
Every time some pundit writes that Trump can still win this or that Biden is failing I see it as passing judgment on the failure of the American nation and its people. Trump is running a dog whistle campaign, appealing to white supremacists and those afraid of demographic change. His team fill their minds with images of rampaging blacks and Latin gangs, MS13, moving in next door. He legitimizes QAnon and the radical right.
You might find this essay, America has Failed, by Cornell law prof, Joseph Margulies, interesting. The state the author depicts is no longer able or even interested in serving the people. https://verdict.justia.com/2020/08/24/america-has-failed
54 million people that don't have enough to eat? 30 to 40 million people being evicted from their homes? In the "greatest" nation on the planet? That, Mound, is truly a failed state.
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