Trump has won the only war he ever cared about
Opinion by Alexandra Petri
Donald Trump once complained, “No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good.” Well, he has done good on something, and I am going to write good.
People run for president because they want to effect big change. They dream of putting a man on the moon and bringing that man back, or putting several men on Mars and just leaving them there, or putting a picture of Salmon P. Chase on a big unit of currency and then discontinuing that unit of currency forever. They dream of enhancing the lives of their fellow citizens in some way, so that when those people look back, they can say, “Ah, I have health insurance that I did not formerly have!” or, “Look, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act is sure in effect!”
For his part, Donald Trump absolutely had something he wanted to do for all Americans that would uplift everyone, like a rising tide, and not just an oddly specific, personal vendetta that he would spend his whole time as president harping on to the confusion of everyone around him.
There was a scourge across America for a long time, and Trump finally ended that scourge. It was agony to many Americans who had expected to benefit from a strong outpouring and instead received only the faintest drops and trickles. No, not the tax cuts for the wealthiest, or the delay in covid-19 relief. Donald Trump does not speak metaphorically, except to say that people are fired like or unlike dogs. This is something far more literal and far more harmful.
The insidious enemy was everywhere, infiltrating our homes. It brought grief to individuals. It brought grief to families. America could not be said to be truly great until it was removed.
The coronavirus? ABSOLUTELY not. The opioid epidemic? Now you are just being silly. I am talking about something that Donald Trump cares about; I am talking, of course, about low-flow showerheads.
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I've been thinking something along the same lines, albeit I do not think that was his intention. Oh yeah, he wanted to shake things up, but it sorta run away on him.
USA has been divided since b4 the civil war,
Something's gotta break.
Hell, the elections are ALWAYS close - yes, some with wider margins,
but the division has just become too close for comfort methinks,
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