CNN: Trump's disastrous end to his shocking presidency

[marmar]

(CNN) President Donald Trump is leaving America in a vortex of violence, sickness and death and more internally estranged than it has been for 150 years.

The disorientating end to his shocking term has the nation reeling from a Washington insurrection. The FBI warned Monday of armed protests by pro-Trump thugs in 50 states, which raise the awful prospect of a domestic insurgency. Health officials fear 5,000 Americans could soon be dying every day from the pandemic Trump ignored. Hospitals are swamped, medical workers are shattered amid a faltering rollout of the vaccine supposed to end the crisis.

It took 200 years for the country to rack up its first two presidential impeachments. Trump's malfeasance has led the country down that awful, divisive path twice in just more than a year. With House Democrats expected to formally impeach the President for inciting a mob assault on Congress on Wednesday, he will rely on the Republican enablers who refused to rein in his lawlessness to save him from conviction again.

Millions of Americans have bought into the delusional, poisoned fiction that an election Trump lost was stolen, and there are signs that some police and military forces have been radicalized by the grievance he stokes. ..........(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/donald-trump-legacy-joe-biden/index.html

[patricia92243]

1. Police neighbor had Trump signs up til last week.

[lark]

3. Funny, the signs in my neighborhood are gone.

They were there last week but gone by the week end and we saw zero on our walk this morning. I will have to drive by a couple of the hard core trumpers that aren't on our walking route and see if their signs have come down or they are doubling down and part of the sedition.

[NJCher]

2. Smoldering ruins

Is what a trump presidency has left us.

And imagine—this freak of humankind thinks we should have him be our leader for 4 more years.

One of the best points this essay makes is that character matters.

[SoonerPride]

4. AMERICAN CARNAGE

He told us who he was and what was going to happen on day 1.

Those of us who paid attention were rightly terrified.