As Americans, we tend to be insular. Countries around the world don’t have that luxury. Their newspapers more honestly describe our leaders.
I regularly check foreign newspapers to round my perspective. I decided to check The Times Of India today. I wanted to see how they described the Biden/Harris win.
The first paragraph of the article, “US says, ‘you’re fired,’ but Don won’t go quietly,” is prescient.
A majority of American voters may have said “You’re Fired!” – his signature line from his reality TV show -for how. But Trumpism, a coarse, ragged ideology that combines elements of racism, bigotry, white grievance, narcissism, and a love of conspiracy theories with a reckless disregard for facts and science – isn’t going anywhere. With some 70 million voters backing him, America’s most divisive and polarising President is expected to remain in public eye and attempt a come back by fanning flames of racial and social strife while insisting he has been cheated of victory.
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Note how accurately they describe Trumpism. They do not attempt to sanitize it.
But it gets better. In the following paragraphs, they completely describe the president’s ineptitude.
Of more urgent concern though is Trump’s immediate legacy of throwing the country into a pandemic crisis with reckless disregard to basic protocols such as social distancing and mask mandates. On Saturday, the man described as by one commentators as “like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun realizing his time is over,” seemed oblivious to the fact that coronavirus count in the country topped 100,000 on each of the past four days — with 1000+ deaths each day -as he golfed in balmy fall weather.
The Trump White House’s disastrous handling of the crisis echoed once again on Friday when the President’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, representative of Trump’s base of ignorance and disregard for science -tested positive for coronavirus. Meadows, a former congressman, famously disdained masks and even mocked White House reporters for wearing them, once walking away from a press gaggle when a journalist requested him to wear a mask if he was going to talk to them at close quarters.
The ineptitude of the Trump White House – laughable if it did not cause so much misery across America – has resulted in 45 coronavirus cases within the Presidential compound, with Trump and his immediately family, and several aides contracting the virus. While Trump, with the best (and free) medical care in the world dismissed the virus as no big deal, millions of Americans caught in a dreadful health care system suffered and died -close to 237,000 deaths by the latest count.
Read the many articles at the above-quoted foreign paper and other newspapers as well as others. It will give you a better perspective. A more involved populace makes better decisions.
