by David Rothkopf (former editor - Foreign Policy - journal of the Carnegie Endowment)
This coming election is going to tell us more about the character of the US than any in our recent past. The 2016 election of Trump was deeply concerning, of course, both because of how Trump won, who he appeared to be & because it seemed to come in reaction to Obama’s victory.
But we were only just getting to know Trump and we were uncertain how he would act once in office. He appeared to be a racist, ignorant, hate-monger but we knew little more than that. Would his business experience help? How would he work with Congress? With world leaders?
We only were beginning to have an idea of Russian interference in the election. And much of the ’16 vote was in response to HRC. But the election in two weeks is largely about Trump and Trump alone. He has said it. And despite his propensity for lies, it appears to be true.
Now we know him well. We have seen his racism in action in Charlottesville and Puerto Rico. We have seen his incompetence in his WH chaos. We have come to know how compromised he was by the Russians and how his defense of them continued.
We have seen his corruption, his self-dealing, and that of all those around him. We have watched him cozy up to autocrats and thugs around the world and embrace their language at home. We have seen him wage war on the rule of law. We have watched as he and the Congress stole from the poor and gave to the rich. We have watched him cage children and separate families. We have watched him undermine the global order that America spent 75 years building. We have listened to him lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie.
We have come to know the GOP would embrace him rather than repudiate his sexism, hate-mongering and embrace of and service to our enemies. We know that if they are re-elected he and they will see this as a great affirmation that America is with them.
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