America isn’t a banana republic, no thanks to Trump, his enablers, and supporters. Still, he (and they) inflicted significant damage.
“Among other things, Trump and his Republican enablers have normalized corruption and nepotism, degraded public discourse, invited foreign involvement in US elections, abused presidential pardons, deepened racial divides and politicized the bureaucracy in ways rarely seen in American history. Trump’s refusal to concede after a clear loss is sweet music for autocrats across the globe and a stain on America’s reputation,”
not to mention tattered alliances, upended trading relationships, emboldened enemies abroad, and assaults on rule of rule and a grief-stricken trail of preventable Covid-19 deaths at home. (Read the story here.)
Very strangely, over 74 million Americans voted for 4 more years of this. What the heck is wrong with those people?