Angry about Trump's cruelty and megalomania toward Puerto Rico? You have recourse.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/14/angry-about-trumps-cruelty-and-megalomania-towards-puerto-rico-you-have-recourse/?utm_term=.0c8d10082229

Now that a hurricane is bearing down on the North Carolina coast, what remains infuriating about President Trump’s conspiracy-theorizing about last year’s Puerto Rico disaster is not just his display of sheer callousness toward its victims, or his megalomaniacal suggestion that this whole affair is, as always, all about him.

What also is galling is Trump’s obvious lack of any inclination to learn from what happened, so that if serious mistakes were indeed made, we can do better next time, saving many lives. All these things are related, of course: If Trump were to evince genuine curiosity in this regard, it might undercut his claim that his administration’s response to the calamity was stellar, and this isn’t to be questioned.

Many people who are angry about this have pointed out that congressional Republicans are making the situation worse, by punting on the oversight that is called for in situations such as this. That is true, but we should also talk more about what oversight Democrats would provide where Republicans have abdicated.


Democrats themselves should be spending more time pledging serious oversight of the Trump’s administration’s governing failures, not just of media-friendly (but also important) things such as Trump’s self-dealing and finances, and their potential overlap with the Russia investigation.

This is now beginning to happen in a serious way. Politico reports that congressional Democrats have released a new batch of documents undercutting Trump’s narrative about the Puerto Rico disaster. One email from a first responder soon after the hurricane hit reported “mass graves” and requested counseling help for first responders — perhaps undercutting early, limited official death estimates.

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Things such as these, and more, would be candidates for serious congressional oversight, which is one of the primary tools of recourse we have against such bottomless presidential bad faith. All indications are that Democrats would supply that oversight where Republicans have not. Which is to say that your recourse is to vote for that oversight, and then hold it accountable as well.

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