Word Count:
694
Words/Sentence:
15
Reading Time:
4.63 min
Reading Quality:
Intermediate
Readability:
11th or 12th
Facing an enormous challenge for the first time in his life, with no one to bail him out, requiring tough and untiring leadership, he's waving the white flag, running down-ramp as fast as his bone spurs can carry him.
It was a festival of grievance aimed at the embittered; not just downplaying, but mocking the disease that's taken one-hundred-twenty-five-thousand American lives; the disease that, because of his incompetence and inattentiveness, is rising faster in the US than anywhere except Brazil.
Who could have imagined a "president" of the United States, a job formerly considered leadership of the free world, facing the ravages of a deadly pandemic, would tell people to ignore it, ridiculing the only activities known to slow it down?
The two-thirds-empty arena was filled with Trump's signature race-baiting, fear-mongering, and outright lies.
Rather than working harder, calling upon the best of our nation, championing the need for short-term suffering for the greater good, he chose to lie and blame and move on.
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