What a strange time and how am I to react to the news that Trump has contracted Coronavirus? My first reaction was not sympathy for the man, I don’t want him dead, I don’t even want him to suffer, but I do want him to stop leading the United States and not just because he is a Republican President with policies I disapprove of, but because I think he is a genuine threat to democracy, and I base this on what he himself says “there will be no transfer of power” etc .
Trump’s neice wrote a book about with a subtitle “How my family created the world’s most dangerous man” and on reflection while there may be worse people in the world than Donald Trump, I can’t think of anyone more dangerous than he is. His sister talks of his cruelty and lying and says "Donald's out for Donald" reflecting on the war dead Trump says “what was in it for them?” Donald Trump is self centred, only looks out for himself and has no sense of altruism.
There are now over 200,000 dead in the US from Coronavirus, for such a technically advanced country this is appalling and it is obvious that so many died because Donald Trump did not act, he did not try to save the populace of the US from a deadly disease and while it is possible to contract the disease while still trying to do everything right, Donald and his entourage & supporters have not tried to do everything right. Just days before going to hospital he was criticising Joe Biden for wearing a mask all the time.
Trump might be ill, but while we can feel compassion for him we must not let that compassion make us think that he is not still uniquely dangerous. We have seen the Bob Mueller regarded Trump impervious to the law due to a DOJ Policy regarding indicting a sitting President. We have seen the Senate refuse to even hear the evidence of his corruption because he belongs to the majority Party. We have seen Trump break the democratic safeguards of the seperation of powers, with a subservient AG, corruptly loyal to Trump rather than law.
Trump represents a danger to the world, he has a legacy of death, violence and corruption that is clear to read. That he may be suffering now doesn’t suddenly turn him into a nice man, I do hope he starts to contemplate the things that he has done and repent, but mostly I hope that he is removed from his position of power where he is uniquely dangerous to democracy, civility, decency, honesty and compassion.
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