Trump’s Grotesque Legacy — A Mound of Bodies Higher than Mount Rushmore
While Trump whines incessantly about the election (which Biden won by the largest number of votes in US history), he seems oblivious to the thousands a day dying of Covid-19 in the USA. The total US death toll is about to pass 300,000. For arguably the richest country in the world, with many excellent hospitals and medical schools, this is a shocking and deranged outcome.
The US death toll, which is the largest in the world and almost a fifth of the world total, is an indictment of Trump’s ‘management’ of the situation and an indictment of a dogmatically capitalistic healthcare system that fails those on average incomes, let alone the poorest. Given the impact of infectious diseases on society through history, it should be obvious that a healthcare system should be there for all citizens as, if not prevented or treated, they spread widely. But this penny doesn’t seem to have dropped for dogmatic capitalists. Like Donald Trump, who himself was treated at a taxpayer funded (‘socialist’) hospital.
Trump, with his pathological hatred of two-term president Obama, promised to reform healthcare for the benefit of the masses. In four years, all he managed was crazed childish attacks on Obamacare and he thought of nothing better to replace it. His envy of articulate, attractive, Harvard-educated black man…
