By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
It can be proclaimed forever and ever that the Great American Experiment in Unconventional Politicians has turned out to be a monumental failure.
Yep! I feel quite comfortable making that declaration.
Donald John Trump won election in 2016 in what I consider to be the Mother of All Flukes. He swore an oath to protect the Constitution, our government and us. He failed.
What has been the price of that failure? For him? Well, he is the first president in history to be impeached twice. He got past the first impeachment because only one Republican senator — Mitt Romney of Utah — had the courage to convict him of abusing the power of his office. The rest of the GOP caucus cowered in fear of Trump.
As egregious as the first impeachment allegations were — soliciting political favors from a foreign government — they pale in comparison to what transpired on Jan. 6.
Trump fomented a violent insurrection on the Capitol Building which at that moment contained members of Congress and the vice president who were doing their duty to ratify an election that Trump lost. He didn’t buy into that reality. Hence, he exhorted the terrorists/rioters to march on Capitol Hill.
So now he is impeached again. President-elect Biden becomes president of the United States in six days. The Senate will put Trump on trial once more. There stands a still-slim — but possibly growing — chance that he’ll be convicted, even though he will be out of office. The impeachment article contains a provision that bans Trump from ever seeking public office again. Hmm. That might be sufficient incentive for enough GOP senators to join their Democratic colleagues in banning this clown from the White House forever.
A man with zero public service experience on his record flim-flammed his way into the presidency by promising that “I, alone” can fix the nation’s problems. We knew he was a phony and a fraud. We knew about the refusal to release his tax returns. We knew about the groping of women. We knew that he disrespected our military veterans and our valiant prisoners of war. We knew about his penchant for cozying up to dictators. We knew of his mocking of disabled people.
We knew all of that. Yet he got elected anyway.
His quest to “make America great again” failed as well, chiefly because America has already is great.
The country has demonstrated its greatness by turning away from the failed experiment of electing a novice politician to the nation’s highest office.
The experiment was doomed from the beginning … as many of us knew would be the case.
For three years, his administration accomplished great gains for the United States with booming economy and extremely low unemployment, for all demographics. He also put China, Iran, and North Korea in check which also bolstered the economy. If Covid hadn’t been landed, he’d easily won his bid for re-election.
Did I always agree with his antics? Not in the least. But, no one can argue with the results of policies (I know you will deny).
The insurrection/riot wiped all that out, in my humble view. His legacy is now poisoned by what he told the mob. And proved beyond a doubt his unfitness for public office.