Covid peak, treason peak, combine to degrade life, democracy in America

Two numbers stand out in today’s declining America: 3,000 and 18. We incurred 3,000 single day covid deaths yesterday for the first time. Eighteen Republican state Attorneys General, led by indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, sued in the Supreme Court to overturn Joe Biden’s election in battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan. The 3,000 deaths, which pushed the U.S. total to 296,700 in ten months, began as an event in nature capable of being controlled by wise governmental intervention. The 18 Attorneys Generals’ lawsuit is wholly man-made, Trump’s latest treasonous gambit to overturn an overwhelming legitimate Biden victory.

Trump’s treason against the Constitution and American democracy began long before pandemic began its devastation of American health and economy. It glided with Trump down the Trump Tower escalator in June, 2015, with a campaign theme based on the current president’s illegitimacy due to being a black man born in Africa. It was a perfect storm of racism and xenophobia. When that resonated with a disaffected, largely white, rural and poorly educated electorate, Trump made insurrection the foundation of his election, governance and re-election. He didn’t lose to Hillary by 2,900,000 votes because the popular election vote was stolen from him by the crooked Democrat Party. Delegitimization of the American electoral system was now official administration policy. When pandemic hit America in February, Trump fused his electoral treason with the destruction of the peoples’ health and wealth. There was no pandemic so there was no need to restrict the economy; not even wear masks or avoid crowds. Trump’s feverish attempts to stop mail in voting, critically needed to reduce pandemic, was the emblematic connection between treason and pandemic. He couldn’t lose re-election unless Democrats were allowed to steal it with mail in votes, which had to be stopped.

When both the national and Electoral College vote overwhelmingly defeated him, Trump doubled down on treasonous assault against the election, even bringing most of the Republican leadership along with him. Threats of violence against Democratic and Republican election officials alike escalate daily. Public health officials promoting sane restrictions receive death threats working in fear, not of covid but from treacherous Trump supporters.

But one number offers a glimmer of hope in our declining democracy and pandemic ravaged society: 40, the number of days Trump and his Republican leaders, his enabling states Attorney’s Generals, his disgraceful lawyers can promote their treason.