"Trump has shrunk the U.S. government down to himself" "No morally healthy country would put this man in power twice" [View all]
'Clearly a psychopath': Theorist warns 'morally insane' USA has bigger problems than Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fitness-for-office-2676705182/
Alan Elrod recently published a piece for Liberal Currents analyzing Trump's second presidency and what it means for the future of American politics, and he spoke with The New Republic's Greg Sargent about his findings.
"Yes, that is damning," Elrod said. "Its damning of the Americans who voted for him, but its also more generally damning and Im sure you want to get into this of just where the country is as a whole, that this kind of person has been able to dominate our politics for a decade, and that so many Americans are in a place to be, I think, persuaded and seduced by the politics hes offering."
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Trump has shrunk the U.S. government down to himself, Elrod said, and he lamented the conditions that led voters to grant him that power.
We cannot pretend that we are well as a nation," Elord wrote in his essay. "No morally healthy country would put this man in power twice. We have become a morally insane, civically disordered, and self-regardingly decadent country.