The only ones who don’t know it are the millions of Trump voters who are the targets of this noxious propaganda campaign, the ones being told that American democracy is worthy of nothing but contempt. At the current pace, by the time Trump leaves office, more than 300,000 Americans will have died of covid-19. They, too, are finishing the Trump presidency the way they started it, with a show of complicity and cowardice. What we deserve is to hear Republicans say to Trump, “Stop this right now. Over the past four years, I’ve thought often about how just a few days after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama welcomed Trump into the Oval Office.

Source: Washington Post November 16, 2020 16:14 UTC