Donald Trump’s success in business has been based more upon the tactics and smooth lying of a bully and slick-talking con man than any hint of astute managerial skills.
During his presidential campaign, these same tactics were ratcheted up to an astounding level, with the lying and cowardly bullying becoming blatant and transparent.
Bullies are cowards, and so are those who find the bullying appealing.
When a candidate’s campaign promises resemble the rantings of a raving lunatic, then not having those promises fulfilled is a good thing, not a bad thing.
The border wall is nothing more than a multibillion-dollar boondoggle-nonsolution to a problem that simply does not exist.
The slogan “Make America Great Again” is meaningless unless you can articulate what is not great about America now and how you are going to fix that.
Neither Trump nor his supporters can do that, and the same goes for the “America First” and “Keep America Safe” slogans.
Instead of draining the swamp, Trump just stocked it with bigger and uglier snakes and threw out the baby with the bathwater by ignoring and violating everything that keeps America a democracy rather than a dictatorship.
I have no doubt that Trump and his minions colluded with the Russians, and no doubt that Trump’s bullying tactics have now led him to obstruct justice.
The question now is not whether Trump is going to go, but how much more damage he will cause before he gets kicked out.
David Desautel,
Sequim