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An Ill Wind

“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good” – and as ill a wind as Covoid-19 is, it blew Donald Trump a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to resurrect a presidency that has been nothing less than disastrous.

Between the scandals, the lies, the inane tweets, the public displays of his ignorance and downright stupidity, followed by impeachment and the polls showing him losing to Biden by increasing margins, the Trump “pResidency” was headed for the dumpster.

But fate smiled on The Donald and afforded him one last chance to rise to the occasion, and prove that he could be the leader his country wanted – and that his party desperately needed in order to be voted back into power in November.

Had Trump swung into action when he learned of the coronavirus and immediately launched a no-holds-barred assault on its spread, had he gathered experts in the field and actually listened to them, had he delegated responsibility for its oversight to the scientists and followed their lead, had he united the country he himself had worked so hard to divide, he might have saved his own ass while saving countless lives.

Instead, what The Dotard-in-Chief chose to do was highlight his own incompetence, double-down on his lies, seek revenge on the governors and mayors who took matters into their own hands when he proved his own ineptitude, and continued (as usual) to blame others for his own failures.

Instead of rising to the occasion, Donald Trump has demonstrated – beyond all reasonable doubt – that he doesn’t have the common sense to raise himself out of the mud he has wallowed in for the past four years, even when doing so was his one-and-only shot at convincing voters that he deserves another four-year term.

One has to wonder why such an unprecedented golden opportunity to prove one’s worth at the eleventh hour would be squandered so completely, why soundbites like “It’s all a hoax, it’s under control, it will magically disappear” were regurgitated by people who knew those statements would be disproven in a matter of days – if not hours.

The truth is that those who “didn’t see this coming” DID see it coming. And despite that foreknowledge, they chose to prepare self-serving, damage-control spin rather than prepare a nation for what was inevitably to come.

I hope that all Americans have noted that at the moment the universe – inexplicably and unpredictably – gave Trump & The Republicans enough rope to escape their current political problems, they chose instead to use it to hang their own countrymen.

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