Monday, August 11, 2025

Trump’s Unforgivable Sin

Americans already understood Trump to be corrupt, and proved themselves willing to tolerate that. But now they are coming to believe that he is inept. In American politics, that is an unforgivable sin.

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Trump is smashing up things on a scale that is almost unimaginable, and he seems completely untroubled by the daily hardships and widespread suffering he is leaving behind. And the president is hardly done. The pain and the body count will rise, and rise, and rise. It will be left to others to clean up the mess he has made. Some of the damage may be repaired with time; some will be irreparable. Democrats should say so. It's their best path to defeating his movement, which is the only way for the healing to begin.

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"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-11 05:47 AM

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These examples are but the beginning; Trump, after all, has more than 1,200 days left in office. There is no evidence that he's going to get more competent or more compassionate, and plenty of evidence to the contrary. The challenge for Democrats will be to keep up with the cascading horror stories and to tell them in compelling and sensitive ways, conveying the devasting effects of the Trump administration's across-the-board mistakes.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-11 05:50 AM

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