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Donald Trump Would Rather Burn the Whole Country Down Than Lose
What’s worse than Trump when he’s winning? Trump when he’s not.
If you’ve ever divorced Donald Trump, you know that things don’t end well with him. The United States is already getting a horrifying idea of what that process looks like. Nearly 165,000 of us are dead, and there is copious evidence that this is because Trump was afraid a Covid-19 outbreak would make him look bad with voters. So he pretended the pandemic could never happen. Well, it happened, and thanks to this absolute fucking monster, it will remain happening in America for much longer than it has been in other, more worthwhile countries.
There is a certain portion of the American population that will stick with Trump no matter how many people he kills or how many innocent protestors he has tear-gassed so he can pretend to be a Christian. Your Codys, your lower-end Karens, etc. But there are now a great many indicators that the rest of the United States has had enough. White women suddenly aren’t too fond of the man. (Took them long enough.) Joe Biden opened with a huge lead on Trump in the spring and has since built on it, particularly in the dreaded swing states. Yes, yes, I’ve seen this movie before, but one perceptive Biden operative told Politico that there is a…
