Bruce Arthur writes that the pandemic has exposed our world as it is. We can no longer look at it through rose coloured glasses:
The pandemic is a mirror, and we suddenly see ourselves for what we are: a world that runs on the grind of low-paid workers while Jeff Bezos aims to become a trillionaire; a country whose government must be the most important safety net; a province that would like to send our kids to school, but also not kill anybody while doing so. Yeah, Ontario made the right call on the schools.
And into the midst of all the ugliness strides the Ugliest American:
The pandemic provides a grimmer clarity: it is showing that Trump is exactly what he is, and always was: an unshakably dumb septuagenarian con man, completely unable to grasp even basic concepts, able only to stride through life through bulls---, yet absolutely confident that he is correct.
It’s not that he is merely a bad person. He is, of course. He is a human Twinkie, unnaturally toasted and filled to the brim with all-white racism and venal resentment. He is definitely that.
Now he insists that hydroxychloroquine is the cure the world has been looking for:
Hydroxychloroquine cuts to the core of Trump, even if there is no proof he is actually taking the drug, other than his word. This drug doesn’t even work as a snake-oil miracle cure anymore except with the absolute rubes, and reality is coming.
How did Trump become fixated on the drug?
The most likely explanation is hydroxychloroquine planted itself in Trump’s mashed potato brain, and it can’t be uprooted. His doctor might be giving him a placebo, but some things stick in there. As journalist Joshua Green reported in his book “Devil’s Bargain,” Trump’s advisers used a border wall with Mexico as a metaphorical trick to make him remember to talk about immigration in campaign speeches. Four years later, he’s still trying to get a real one built.
So the unreality isn’t new, but then you realize the difference. Before this, Trump’s lunacy and incompetence endangered other people. But he’s so dumb he can put himself at risk, too. Yes, this is the president who stared at a solar eclipse without protective glasses, who has refused to wear a mask, who ignored physical distancing even as members of the White House tested positive for the coronavirus all around him.
None of the stupidity is an act, even as political reporters still work to make him a normal president. He might be a few weeks from drinking bleach to prove a point.
Insanity itself sits in the White house.
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