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Was it evil behind the 170k deaths from COVID-19, or just incompetence? "Huh? I don't know him, I never met him, it never reached my table."

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Let’s face it, with Trump, the issue of incompetence vs. evil is a false dichotomy. Not just because Trump has eaten, drunk, and slept of the Dark Triad for all his 74 years on this planet, and not just because he’s had a long history of failure and at one point, spiraled so deep two cents of every dollar Lost by a US business was lost by Trump, and it’s not even just because he’s so thoroughly divorced from reality that his toadies had to coin the phrase “alternative facts” to justify his bullshit.

It’s deeper than that. Why? Deep down, it’s because he’s the head of a party that, for decades at the very least, has latched onto the idea that the government should not exist to help people. At all. Except maybe the military and the obscenely rich. And Trump’s taking it to the extreme, and in any sane world, this is where Raskolnikov would meet Svidrigailoff and let them know the monstrousness of the ideology they picked. Meanwhile, Trump’s still claiming he took decisive action to stop the spread of COVID, even though he’s repeatedly lied about The virus, asked officials to slow down testing, Demanding states reopen even as thousands of people are dying every day, and as a result, we now have more cases and more deaths than any other nation. And as I was eating dinner last night, Dad had the TV on and I heard some Republican parroting Trump’s claim that he took decisive action to stop the pandemic, even as he did nothing of the sort. Why? While it’s tempting to liken Trump to Anthony Fremont from “It’s a Good Life,” his party isn’t kissing his ass out of fear. They’re doing it because, when the government actually trying to help people is anathema to your political views, this is what a good response looks like. And if the rest of the world looks at what you’re doing and responds like this, that’s their problem, not yours: