Four Wasted Years Thinking About Donald Trump
By Michelle Goldberg
It’s very hard to catalog all the things we’ve lost under the presidency of Donald Trump.
As I write this, over 225,000 Americans have lost their lives to Covid-19. Many of our children have lost months of school. Soon a huge part of the country will lose Thanksgiving.
Because of the Trump administration’s barbaric family separation policy, 545 children may be lost to their parents forever. America has lost its status as a leading democracy. We lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg, so we’re probably going to lose Roe v. Wade. More people have lost their jobs under Trump than under any president since at least World War II.
Compared with all this, mourning the cultural casualties of the Trump years might be frivolous.
But when I think back, from my obviously privileged position, on the texture of daily life during the past four years, all the attention sucked up by this black hole of a president has been its own sort of loss. Every moment spent thinking about Trump is a moment that could have been spent contemplating, creating or appreciating something else. Trump is a narcissistic philistine, and he bent American culture toward him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/trump-arts-culture.html
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