QOTD: Amnesia

David A. Graham, writing in the latest edition of The Atlantic on the Malignant Loser's promises, his record and voter amnesia: 

"One of the curious things about the gap between record and promise is that in some cases, Trump is promising to do more than he did before (deport immigrants, build the wall), and in others, he’s promising to do less (give power to employers, limit abortion). Trump critics have been frustrated by a certain amount of amnesia among voters about how chaotic and unpleasant the Trump years were — not just by the critics’ standards, but based on popular impressions at the time.

This amnesia depends in part on voters being willing to believe promises that cut directly against what he did as president. No one could seriously argue that by the end of his term, Trump had managed to 'unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success,' as his platform says he will this time."  (our emphasis)

His inept, dishonest and deadly mismanagement of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic should have convinced voters that he was unfit, not to mention two impeachments and his violent attempt to overthrow the 2020 Presidential election based on the Big Lie. It's essential to remind people of the disaster his presidency was (154 Presidential historians ranked the Malignant Loser last of all 46 Presidents earlier this year), and that the worst would be yet to come.