Opinion: Every crisis America faces has been made worse by Trump
President Trump is not responsible for these problems in all their aspects. But America is getting a very costly civics lesson. As many warned, presidents invariably face crises. It is the nature of the job and the world. Such a time of testing was delayed for Trump until the last year of his term. But the reckoning has arrived. Suddenly, electing a television entertainer — with no knowledge of history or experience of the world — seems less amusing.
Every crisis the United States now faces has been made worse by Trump’s limits as a leader and a man. We needed a president who could imagine what the American experiment looks like from the perspective of those who find its promises fraudulent. We got someone incapable of empathy. We needed a president who would be data driven in matters of public health policy. We got someone driven by irrational enthusiasms and the advice of cronies. We needed a president who could calm destructive passions.
It doesn’t really matter, in the end, if you camouflage Trump support as social analysis. It may well be true that the Trump movement is rooted in the suffering of rural and small-town America. It may well be true that some of Trump’s supporters have been dislocated by profound economic and cultural changes and are angered by the condescension of elites.
The problem with this kind of argument is that there is no tissue of connection between means and ends. Trump as president has no discernible tie or relationship to such valid cultural concerns. This argument is like saying: “The problem of cultural and economic inequality is growing in our society, therefore let us eat more rutabagas.” Or: “Drug abuse is increasing in rural America, therefore let us engage in more naked karaoke.
For all those who called Trump the better of two evils in 2016, it should be clear that the choice was really between a flawed but qualified Democratic candidate and a flawed and manifestly unfit Republican one. Now the unity of our country is under severe strain, the justice of our country is under close questioning, and the leader of our country is a crank with a keyboard. So enough with explaining Trump or explaining him away; he must be defeated.
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