Things fall apart

With the country coming apart at the seams, the necessity for wise presidential leadership that can facilitate the establishment of national purpose and unite people in conquering our grave challenges has never been greater. Instead we have a psychopath pouring gasoline on the fires of division, inciting violence, libeling his critics, denying consensual reality, and placing only himself and his unquenchable need for adulation at the center of the universe.

That 40% of the people tell pollsters they approve of his performance is proof of our deeply flawed political culture. It is futile to tell these people that he is a psychopathic white supremacist buffoon because they already know that. That is what they like about him. Authoritarian white nationalism is the soul of the Republican Party. You can't have a cult of personality without someone who wants to be its God at the center.

I obviously wasn't happy about Joe Biden being the Democratic nominee but he knows how to provide leadership at this terrifying moment.



And I'll let Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have the last word, or rather two words.