As I examine the political history of The Former Guy, I am left with trying to parse through a serious quandary.
Consider these known facts about TFG’s limited foray into public service.
He declared his POTUS candidacy in 2015 and immediately launched into an attack on immigrants … the type of people on which this nation was founded.
He was elected in 2016 basically on a technicality. He lost the popular vote by roughly 3 million ballots but won because he garnered more Electoral College votes than Hillary Clinton.
TFG served a single term as POTUS, embarrassing himself and the people he represented.
Joe Biden ran against him in 2020 and defeated him, winning 7 million more votes than TFG and defeating him in the electoral vote by the same margin TFG garnered in 2016.
TFG had squandered the nation’s response to the COVID crisis; he went through senior White House staffers and Cabinet secretaries like Happy Meals.
The voters said “hell no!” to his request for a second term, but then he didn’t accept the voters’ decree. TFG fomented The Big Lie about alleged 2020 election theft. He provoked the 1/6 attack on the government, he took classified documents from the White House and pressured state election officials to “find” 2020 votes that didn’t exist.
Oh, and he was impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives during his term in office.
Now, dude wants his old job back.
What simply doesn’t compute with me is how The Former Guy continues to scarf up the loyalists among American voters. The economy is No. 1 in the world. Do we have problems? Sure. Name me a president who has been problem-free in his first term in office.
Is TFG the man to “fix” what he alleges is wrong with the nation? Hah! Don’t force me to upchuck.