Matthew Yglesias writes in Vox about the terrible damage to the nation that mentally unfit demagogue Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump has caused. An excerpt:
"Some of the Trump agenda is standard for a Republican president. White-collar criminal prosecutions have hit a 33-year low. The Justice Department defends state laws that could kick thousands off the voting rolls. The National Labor Relations Board is now more sympathetic to employers than unions. And military spending is on track to reach the same levels as during the height of the Iraq War.There's also Trump's infamous, intentionally cruel attempt to stop immigration not only on our southern border, but across the board to stop racial and religious minorities from entering the U.S. The Red Cap Cult loves his "accomplishments" and wants more of the same. That's why the 2020 elections -- from local and state to Federal levels -- are going to determine who we are as a country and if we'll hold on to our democracy in the face of Trump's existential threat to it.
But he’s gone further. While the media, understandably, focuses on Trump’s many scandals, his administration has quietly enacted a far more aggressive agenda than his Republican predecessors. Big boosts to fossil fuel production have come at the expense of an unprecedented deterioration in air quality. Tens of thousands of people have lost health insurance by administrative fiat, and millions are in the process of losing their nutritional assistance through the same mechanism. He’s remade the judiciary, installing conservative judges at twice Obama’s pace, and he’s consolidated a conservative majority on the Supreme Court that may endure for decades."
