Trump proves he is imperfect

Those who support the reelection of Mr. Donald Trump remind us that none of us are perfect, that to lash out at one over another is unfair, that we all have our faults. It must be said, however, that some individuals appear to be more imperfect than others, especially those in high places.

“The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from COVID-19,” according to a Lancet commission (England) tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record. In seeking to respond to the pandemic, Trump has been widely condemned for “not taking the pandemic seriously enough soon enough, spreading conspiracy theories, not encouraging mask wearing and undermining scientists and others seeking to combat the virus’s spread.” (The Guardian)

After the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump in July, The Los Angeles Times interviewed two fellow high school students of the accused shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks. One noted that Crooks was always alone during lunch; another that he was bullied every day he was in school. The media, post shooting, sought to answer the shooter’s possible motive?

Yet who, we might ask, is our National Bully-in Chief? It is Mr. Trump who frequently and flagrantly demeans others. Not only his political rivals, “Kamala Harris is stupid,” “Lazy Joe,” (The Independent) but he has mocked handicapped individuals, as he did on national television during his 2016 campaign, and called prisoners of war (like John McCain) losers.

Might not an unstable, bullied young man, perhaps take his anger out on a national figure who is a practicing bully? “In a wide-ranging assessment the (Lancet) commission said Trump “brought misfortune to the USA and the planet during his four years in office.”

Do we really want four more years of such a less-than-perfect human being leading our country? I hope not. Vote for civility come November, vote for decency and reclaiming our democracy, vote for Kamala Harris.

Christine Wardenburg-Skinner

Edison