It's somewhat ironic that the age of Trump overlapped with Covid-19.
As terrible as Covid has been, the virus itself is, relatively speaking, not that dangerous. Imagine if this was a much more deadly virus like Ebola. Covid allowed the US (and other parts of the world) to practice how to handle a more deadly virus. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands died in the process.
Similarly, Trump was too stupid to be a really effective tyrant. We are fortunate that he was a narcissist and not an ideologue. But he has also helped to set a path for the next wannabe fascist dictator and that one may be not just nefarious but also competent. The US must take the time in the next two years to put into law all those things that were previously tradition that Trump ignored. The US democracy can't be based on a system of trust when the political apparatus is full of con-men, sycophants, sociopaths and money-grubbing bastards.
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