In today’s witches cauldron of Covid-19 and partisan politics my thoughts are also with the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Calvin Monerlyn, the missing children in Idaho and countless other needless tragedies.
No one conspired to bring down the economy and cause massive unemployment but denial and trying to pretend Covid-19 is not still with us is a failure of leadership. Avoiding more testing, not wearing a mask when others are asked to do so, refusing the reopening recommendations of the Center for Disease Control, firing inspectors generals, telling Dr. Fauci he cannot testify in the House of Representatives, the blame game with China, all a continuing and complete failure of leadership.
The Senate and House of Representatives are exactly the representatives of the people of the United States. Refusing testimony and withholding information disrespects our nation, our people and is beyond failure of leadership. President Trump and claimed executive privilege over the entirety of the Mueller Report, so how are we to know about the lies which Michael Flynn admitted. What happened to John Bolton’s book?
Multiple states are trying to expand vote by mail options so people don’t have to risk Covid-19 by going to crowded polling places. The Republican Party is spending millions to prevent this while Trump is claiming voter fraud. We’ve had absentee balloting forever. There is no widespread fraud, usually single digits if at all. Voter suppression is part of the Republican strategy, to hell with democracy and encouraging people to vote. And Mitch still won’t move legislation in the Senate to address foreign meddling in our election, which Trump still claims was a hoax.
There didn’t need to be any collusion, the Russians were doing the job for him anyway. All he had to do was make nice with Putin. His campaign staff knew it was happening, knew it might help them, did nothing to stop it while having multiple contacts with the Russians including Michael Flynn and the Russian Ambassador.
