Trump boasts of his many accomplishments in office. What did he do? That is hard to say. He passed the massive tax cut that most agree served to enrich the rich while ballooning the national debt for which our children and grandchildren will pay. He cut environmental standards, unleashing pollutants that will afflict our offspring long after he is gone.
He certainly stacked the Supreme Court with an unprecedented three justices in a single four-year term. But, that has more to do with the ambidextrous Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell who stole one of those justices from Obama, and another from Biden.
Trump also did something that was rather unique: Garnered a love from his supporters unseen in American presidential history. It borders on cultism. Many of his followers rationalize: "It is because he loves us." No, Trump loves Trump; Trump loves you loving Trump. That's all.
Trump loves what benefits him. He wraps himself in the American flag - literally huge it. Yet, when it came time to fight for that flag, Trump went to his doctor to get an excuse. He similarly fondles the Bible. Trump's former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, called Trump "the most flawed man I've ever met." His former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, simply called him "an idiot."
Trump entertained America for four years. We have never seen the likes. He became this larger-than-life caricature - a carnival barker one moment, a tyrant the next. He was cruel, insensitive; driven by spite. And, then, such a child that he endeared himself to much of the country, even as he lied with abandon, and bullied with the best of them. He cowed the members of his own Republican party until they were reduced to tip-toeing about him as though on eggshells.
Arizona senator, Martha McSally, during the senatorial debate with the astronaut, Mark Kelly, was asked about her close ties to Trump. There on stage, she denied such ties three times. No doubt, the ever-beset Trump saw in her parallels with the biblical Peter who, before the cock crowed thrice, denied Jesus.
More crusader than a politician, Trump mounted the shoulders of America's evangelicals and truly imagined his quest to be one of good versus evil. Perhaps it was, though not the way he envisioned it.
