Never Forget: Trump Did This

It remains beyond mystifying how such a significant chunk of America still rallies for a President who, as they say "lies like he breathes," enflames with each accusation he tweets and daily endorses pain, destruction and death.

America absolutely ain't what it's cracked itself up to be.

Until Trump bamboozled his way into the Oval Office, I never really considered how many self-absorbed, deluded, morally bereft and flat out foolish people I share this country with.

It truly, utterly, boggles the mind. How many of the lost existed prior to Trump's Fox News-fueled brainwashing is hard to say. But, it's definitely a cult phenomena, as the aimless who don't seem to know themselves or give a squat about the preciousness of life, have fallen prey to the Trump "cult of personality."

I always had a hard time imagining -- particularly with so much fair warning in Biblical scripture and those heavily commercialized "Left Behind" books and TV series of the 1990's -- how an anti-Christ could rise to power undetected and without getting the boot from a citizenry with the smarts to know a snakeoil salesman when they see one.

Since Trump's precipitous rise to power and popularity, I don't puzzle over that anymore.

Now, before anyone gets their "end times" up, I'm not saying Trump is the son of perdition. I'm simply pointing out that he has all the disingenuous character traits of an anti-Christ: arrogance, dishonesty, divisiveness, vengeance and, as I said earlier, a "personality of cult" that sucks in the gullible. 

As we anxiously await the results to be tallied in yesterday's runoff between Trump and challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, don't ever dare forget -- Trump did this!

We endure daily reminders of the fallout from the Trump deception -- of how he  cataclysmically, and yes, criminally, screwed up his job.

Facemasks. Caravans of pickup trucks flying "Trump" flags, threatening violence.  Business closures. Jobs lost. Evictions. Homelessness. Hate. Lies. Insults. Suffering. Infection. Sickness. Death.

Trump did all this.

The Trump-facilitated damage, heartache and challenges that Americans endure daily are incalcuable and far-reaching into every aspect of life.

We all deal with the frustration of wearing a mask daily as we enter a store or other closed quarters, sometimes forgetting them, sometimes misplacing them.

It's a small discipline to make in order to preserve life. But Trump did that. When your glasses steam up behind the mask as you try to make good time through the store, Trump did that, too.

More consequentially, when a man denied entrance at a convenience store for not wearing a mask, leaves in a fit, returns with a gun, shoots the security guard in the face, killing him -- Trump did that.

More than 8 million people in the United States have been infected with Covid-19, untold numbers suffering lasting debilitations. 

Trump did that.

Nearly, 230,000 people have stopped breathing and died from the virus.

Trump did that.

This country hasn't been so divided since the Civil War.

Trump did that.

Violent hate crimes have rose steadily each year in America since 2016.

Trump did that.

Millions have lost their jobs; many face the prospect of eviction or losing their homes.

Trump did that, too.

There's no need in rehashing Trump's dismissals, misleadings and lies about this past spring's pending pandemic that is soon to wipeout a quarter million lives as it resurges across this nation just in time for the holidays.

Just know -- and never forget -- Trump did this. And he must answer for it.