We shouldn’t and we don’t usually dismiss history because it is in the past. That Trump was President is in the present. He paid for and clearly believed that the “Catch and Kill Scheme” could control information that could have lost him the election. The content is sleazy – that’s on him – but if we had known about these things when we needed to know about them, the horrific consequences of his regime might never have been.
One of those consequences – hardly, if ever mentioned – are the people who are now dead on account of his politically motivated handling of the COVID catastrophe. How many thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousand out of the over a million of us who are gone have their blood on his hands?
At first glance, the other cases might seem weightier than this one, the very survival of our Country being at stake and that is mighty weighty, but even without holding him accountable in those, we might survive.
The people who would still be with us if he had lost the election – there’s no hope for them – they’re dead.
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