From: Michael Greven
Columbus
President Donald Trump’s attack on the democratic process in this country is stunning — even for someone with the limited, and or non-existent, moral and ethical compass he is working with.
Trump has now lost the popular vote in the last two elections.
However, he did win the Electoral College in 2016.
In 2020, he lost the popular vote by a greater margin than in 2016 and he also lost the Electoral College vote.
Given his inability to recognize that he could lose, or that the sanctity of our nation’s democracy is more important than Donald Trump, he has also contrived to undermine the results in Congress.
Simultaneously, he worked to undermine the election results in Georgia before the votes were even fully cast or counted.
What in the world is going on here? And how is that the Republican party allows him to continue to disparage our democracy and our government?
The simple answer is power, and a seemingly unquenchable thirst for it on the part of Trump and his allies. (And extremely weak leadership in what remains of the “Republican” party).
What is the cost of this to our nation? And what lessons are Americans learning from their "leader?"
Is he teaching us that our votes really don’t matter? That elections don’t matter?
Or perhaps he is teaching us that election officials, many of whom have sworn an oath of office on the Bible, don’t matter? Perhaps it is that our courts don’t matter?
The Trump campaign and the Republican party have filed lawsuit after lawsuit across the nation challenging the results of the election and they have yet to win.
Even the Supreme Court of the United States has not ruled in the Trump campaign’s favor.
Doesn’t that matter?
Are we being taught that all you need to do about a result you don’t like is to lie about it and to disparage the other side? Are all facts now open to having an alternative set of facts?
Does truth simply not matter?
We are repeatedly told by the president that the press is nothing but liars, so our faith in the press as a critical pillar of democracy is being undermined on a daily basis.
It is a clear commentary on our sitting president that he has yet to focus on the Russia hack or lend his voice to leading the nation as we try to respond to the pandemic with the new vaccines.
His focus is on Donald Trump — and only Donald Trump — and perhaps a party at his beach club or a round of golf.
It has been a pitiful presidency and it is coming to a fitting end.
It is, however, a travesty to see the damage that is being done to our nation.
The ideals of democracy, and simple hope, have been ravaged by a president whose soul yearns for greed and power.
America will survive, but this is painful to live through.
It’s time to move on.
