I took a couple days off from paying attention to Donald Trump to celebrate the Christmas holiday with my family, but I see from his Saturday morning Twitter activity that nothing has changed. He’s still in some kind of bizarre denial that he has lost his bid for reelection, and he’s still lashing out in wild and crazy ways that are unfathomable in a U.S. president.
Meanwhile, as president-elect Joe Biden points out, “It is the day after Christmas, and millions of families don’t know if they’ll be able to make ends meet because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign an economic relief bill approved by Congress with an overwhelming and bipartisan majority. This abdication of responsibility has devastating consequences.”
I’ve spent far too much of my life focused on Trump and I couldn’t be more ready to be done with him, but he’s still our president for another 25 days. He can complain all he wants, but it just does more damage to his record as the worst leader this country has ever had. It’s actually hard to imagine that we could ever have someone worse, even if America persists for another thousand years.
On the other hand, he’s at least done us the service of demonstrating how vulnerable we are. He said he wanted to make America great again, but he actually showed us how far from great we have been all along.
Here’s hoping the Democrats come up with a useful division of labor in the coming months: Biden as the patient, compassionate uniter and the experienced Washington veteran who knows how to get things done, Congress using its powers of investigation to subpoena testimony and evidence as well as its powers to pass laws on a range of long overdue national issues, the various executive departments using the full range of their powers to 1) repair the damage done by Trump’s administration, and 2) act boldly and quickly to limit corporate power and protect ordinary citizens.
Well, my take is almost the opposite.
At least Trump pretends he cares and said the bill should be $2000 to every US Adult, which is $8000 less than what is bare minimum required, but more than the insult that is $600. Pelosi should have immediately recalled the House and voted on passing JUST $2000 to every US Adult, no means testing. That should have already been voted on and passed. Let the Senate Republicans refuse to bring it up, and it can only help GA Senate races.
Also, if Biden is already playing the “bipartisan means good” game, then this country is fucked. Let the collapse continue.
Pelosi has a vote scheduled for Monday.
Also, the supplemental UI passed by Dems in the CARES Act (and the diminished extension of it in the bill that’s sitting on Trump’s desk awaiting his signature) is (imho) an underrated accomplishment.
He is toying with us. I think he wants to leave us with nothing less than a war with his Proud Boys and friends.