Yep, it’s personal!

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By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

Readers of this blog have long understood that I loathe Donald Trump. I loathe him because of his fundamental unfitness for the job he is about to vacate, for the way he has conducted himself before and during the time he became a politician.

It’s not ideological.

For starters, I don’t consider myself to be an ideologue. I have fashioned my political view in good-government terms, which suggests that I favor compromise over rigid ideology.

More to the point, I don’t consider Trump to be an ideologue, either. He is a panderer. Trump, though, is a clumsy panderer. He just isn’t very good at it. He is inartful, inarticulate, inept. Trump is as Sen. Mitt Romney described in 2016: a “phony” and a “fraud.”

All this is my way of saying that I welcome anxiously the moment U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts extends his hand to Joe Biden and says, “Congratulations, Mr. President.”

I am weary of the constant chaos that Trump has delivered during the past four years; I am sick and tired of this individual’s constant effort to take credit he doesn’t deserve; I am flabbergasted that he lies continually, incessantly and with no hesitation.

Even more than that I am astounded and amazed that the core of Trumpkins who continue to support this individual give him a pass on the lying. It’s as if the lies he tells have become some form of “truth” to their tone-deaf ears.

My hope for the new president is that he will spare us the constant Twitter tirade, the lying, the chaos that have been the signature of the president who is about to leave the White House for the final time. Truth be told, I hope he’s left it already for the final time, given that he and his wife are in Florida soaking up the sun and lounging in luxury while the nation suffers from the pandemic.

I am heartened and relieved we are soon to be spared the dangerous behavior of someone who in a more normal political environment would have been laughed off the political stage.

I am waiting for your arrival, President Biden.