From today's Washington Post op-ed page by conservative national security writer Max Boot, looking at the existential disaster a second Trump term would be:
"The prospect of another Trump term is the greatest foreseeable disaster that can befall the United States and the world. Trump is likely to be 10 times more dangerous this time around, because he won’t allow any adults in the White House to act as a check on his worst instincts — no more Jim Mattis as defense secretary, John F. Kelly as chief of staff or H.R. McMaster as national security adviser. In a second term, Trump is likely to only appoint advisers as unhinged as he is.
We can only speculate what this will mean, but the likelihood is that Trump will cut off aid to Ukraine, pull out of NATO, eviscerate the civil service and the military’s top ranks, and appoint an attorney general who will prosecute his enemies. For a start. He was eager to do all of those things in his first term but was dissuaded or blocked by the 'deep state.' He’s unlikely to allow that to happen again. He has become even more radical and more authoritarian since leaving office, and he now has much more experience in getting what he wants out of the government.
The consequences will be dire enough domestically, imperiling U.S. democracy, but they will be even worse internationally. Among other alarming consequences, a Trump presidency could allow Russian leader Vladimir Putin to defeat Ukraine and remake the 21st-century global order in favor of tyrants and aggressors." (our emphasis)
Boot writes that the Biden - Harris ticket may be uninspiring, but is the only game in town if you want to defeat American fascism on the rise in the person of the Malignant Loser. It's too late for fantasy Dem tickets with Gov. Whitmer (MI) or Gov. Newsom (CA), with primaries only a few months away. President Biden will have to sell his good record on the economy and on defending freedom here and abroad to a distracted and restive public in the 13 months before the next Presidential election.
