Robert Reich laid out in a detailed fashion how Donald Trump has methodically destroyed American values both actual and aspirational. He scolded Republicans and specifically Orrin Hatch for his sycophancy for the president after the passage of the Republican tax cut scam.
Reich enumerates the Trump infection uniquely as he deconstructed how he is metastasizing cancer in America destroying our values, real and aspirational. Reich castigates Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) by pointing out that Trump has been the least ethical president even when contrasted with the worst of them.
Last week, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch stood on the White House lawn, opining that Donald Trump’s presidency could be “the greatest presidency that we’ve seen, not only in generations, but maybe ever.”
I beg to differ.
America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these nefarious qualities.
Reich reminded us on a Trump who skirted the law with various examples and writes,
A president’s most fundamental legal and moral responsibility is to uphold and protect our system of government. Trump has degraded that system.
He continued by pointing out how he degraded the social justice and legal system and in the process laid the groundwork for racial strife. He ended with what one can only equate with metastasizing cancer.
America has had its share of good and bad presidents, but Donald Trump falls far below anything this nation has ever before experienced. In less than a year, he has degraded the core institutions and values of our democracy.
We have never before had a president whose character was so contrary to the ideals of the republic. That Senator Orrin Hatch and other Republicans don’t seem to recognize this is itself frightening.
While it would be great to impeach Trump — there is much cause already, reconstructing our institutions and our faith in what we expect out of our country requires that we vote Trump enablers out of office at all levels of State and Federal governments.
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