Small Minded Solutions from a Simple-Minded President
People in the construction industry and especially those who do renovations, readily understand the concept that it is easier to tear down than to rebuild. Demolition is the most straightforward part of any refurbishment; it requires little thought or concern; it is just the act of destroying what someone else has built. President Trump and the GOP have taken this same approach to deal with Obama’s legacy. The problem is neither Trump nor his enablers have any idea of how to put things back together.
Republicans tore their hair out for eight years, decrying the horrible result of millions of Americans who were able to obtain health insurance for the first time in their lives. And during that time, the supposedly best minds and the smartest lawmakers could only muster the ridiculous tag line of “Repeal and Replace.” Americans saw through the sham and knew there was no “replace” on the other side of repeal. The reason? Healthcare is complicated; solutions take empathy, thought, patience, and work.
Tag lines are a natural gift for our immature President, look at the insults he hurls to bully adversaries. It is like watching a ten-year-old in a schoolyard.
Now we have a Pandemic ravaging our country, destroying our economy, and killing our citizens. The President, living in some alternative universe, believes it will magically disappear. Unfortunately, that belief is not borne out by the facts of people infected or dead. Like a pied piper, Trump’s incompetence and lack of leadership are contagious and have brought along an inept GOP majority senate. Why has the Trump administration been so incapable of leading on this disaster? Because it’s complicated, it takes empathy, thought, patience, and work.
The easy things he can do with efficiency, it does not take intelligence to accomplish tasks like pardoning Roger Stone. There is nothing complicated about a corrupt President commuting the sentence of a convicted felon who promised not to implicate the President in his crimes. But wait, they mistreated Stone; a jury convicted him of seven felonies; I guess that is unfair in Trump’s world.
Destruction is easy, destroying the rule of law, making a mockery of the constitution, and debasing the office of the Presidency are all things Trump does quite well.
