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Sure they will and the teary-eyed members of the GOP
who now sit in a starkly divided Congress will find any
means possible to extract some means of retribution for a
loss that they ostensibly never saw coming.
In retrospect, Herr Trump had a 20-gauge shotgun that
he used to blow off both of his political feet. He miserably
failed at even remotely trying to show the American public
that he was on top of defeating COVID-19.
And he was miserable at trying to get America to accept
his cruel and hurtful acts towards people of color; and a
host of other knife cuts that when totaled together,
amounted to an eye-avoiding episode of Japanese Hari-Kari.
No one need cry for such an amoral person who seemingly
would tear the wings off butterflies, kick stray dogs or
even separate young children from their parents along the
Mexican Border.
Oh, the GOP fat cats will sorely miss him with his
brazen attempts to buy their favor by giving them
budget-breaking tax breaks while throwing stale breadcrumbs
to hard-pressed working families.
Herr Trump reveled in the power of the presidency but
was totally clueless as to how to wield those plenary powers
for the general good of the country. He could have done so
much if his twin resident evils, his unchecked ego and
vanity, did not arrogantly rule 95 percent of his brain
cells.
And what shall be said of the cloud of sycophants who
would daily kiss his ring finger upon a moment’s notice?
They reveled in his presence and gloried in their powers
thinking that they were all of that and a bag of chips, but
they were not.
Really…who can take Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development seriously or Betsy DeVos as Secretary
of Education! What jokes they were and do not get me raging
on the lapdog known as William Barr, his acrimonious
Attorney General.
When the political dust settles, and Joe Biden takes
over the reins of a nigh decimated governmental
infrastructure, it will be a herculean job of rebuilding
trust with the American public that governmental
institutions are needed and do serve a purpose and are best
populated by honest and smart men and women.
If nothing else, this experiment in rule by a class of
cons and grifters should spark legislation that will attempt
to curb many of the excesses that we witnessed in
governmental leaders and their flailing departments.
What should be a sure thing would be a requirement that
presidential
candidates must show their tax returns for the past 10 years
and that the laws about self-dealing need to be strengthened
to prevent presidents like Herr Trump from profiting from
the Oval Office.
Anyone for abolishing the antiquated Electoral College
and reverting to a system where there is a direct election
of the president?
Democracy is messy because you must negotiate competing
interests while still getting things done without gridlock
and adroitly negotiate the bloated egos of politicos who
believe that they will rule and reign for all of time.
What does my crystal ball show for the future? If Joe
Biden does a credible job for the next four years and then
calls it quits, is America… white America ready and willing
to elect a Black woman as president, as commander in chief?
Or, will the still injured GOP run a Trump like
candidate who can whip up their still seething base to
believe that a Black woman, Kamala Harris, is nigh next to
being a socialist or worse yet, a communist?
Will non college educated white males, North or South,
be willing to accept a Black woman as their boss?
I predict that in 2024, the GOP will run Nikki Haley (
a woman of color) as their antidote to Kamala Harris and
give white male voters a chance to avoid picking a Black
woman as the head of state.
We live in interesting times.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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