TFG is history, but recent enough to justify study
By Tom Burke / For The Herald
I used to fire up my computer every morning to see if a medical acronym had ended Donald Trump’s attack on our democracy. I’d look for Second Coming headlines (that’s really big type on a newspaper’s front page) using doctor-talk — such as CVA, MI or CHF — reporting the sudden end of his presidency.
(Medical translations: CVA, cerebrovascular accident or stroke; MI, myocardial infarction or heart attack; and CHF, congestive heart failure another kind of heart attack.)
Of course I mourn any death and wish it on no one. But his Republican support through two impeachments, sycophantish-enabling of his serial disasters (covid, China, the Wall, global warming, etc.), and MAGA-crowd enthusiasm for his incompetence dismayed me and, as I saw no constitutional end to his horror until the 2020 election, I had very un-Christian thoughts regarding his health.
For the last five-plus years I’ve written about our 45th president: gently at first, contrasting his behavior against, say, George Washington’s Rules of Civility; then slyly but with more bite, like labeling him ”Der Furor;” then stridently calling him out as totally unfit, as he engineered a putsch-like grab for dictatorial powers.
Three new books: “I Alone Can Fix It” by Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker, Michael Bender’s “Frankly We Did Win This Election,” and Michael Wolff’s “Landslide” are now further exposing the depths of his incompetence, his unstable mental state or mental illness, his lack of intellectual rigor except for sly cunning, and his attempt to crap-can the Constitution. (And Bob Woodward’s book, not due ‘til September, is sure to be another killer.)
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