Trump wants to take America down with him
Thirty years ago this month, Iraqi forces commanded by Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied the tiny nation of Kuwait. A few months later, a coalition led by the United States drove those forces back into Iraq. The retreating army did not go quietly. Instead, fleeing soldiers set fire to hundreds of oil wells, blackening the sky with smoke for months and creating a terrible environmental disaster. The message was clear: If Saddam couldn't have Kuwait's oil, nobody could.
President Trump is now running the United States government using Saddam-like logic.
There are fewer than 90 days left before the election, and Trump — who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College in 2016 — is in bad shape. RealClearPolitics' roundup of polls shows presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading Trump by almost eight points nationally, and by 4.3 points in battleground states. Trump has never had an approval rate above 50 percent during his term — but Gallup now puts his approval rating at 41 percent, which is better than George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter had at the same point in their first terms, but worse than the last four presidents who actually achieved re-election.
The president's response to the growing prospect of losing the White House has been to set fire to, well, everything — our national cohesion, our institutions, and our elections.
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