The Last Day of The Asterisk Presidency

But the ‘American Carnage’ isn’t going away

Today is the last day. Of the most destructive man ever to be President* of the United States.

Of the 43 men to hold the office prior to the one leaving tomorrow, we have had great, good, mediocre, middling, do-nothing, forgotten, bad and terrible presidents. But none except Andrew Johnson, were as destructive to this country as the current occupant*.

The person leaving the White House tomorrow morning (in violation of the rules of transition), skipping the inaugural for the first time in modern history so he doesn’t leave as an ex-president, has done more to destroy this country on so many levels and lied so many times (The Washington Post gave up at around 25,000), yet 74 million people voted for the Orange Menace and it took 81 million to vote him out.

His inhumanity and craven lust for an office which five-and-a-half years ago was initially looked upon as a joke, but tapped a long-simmering feeling of resentment of (mostly) white, male, older citizens, was laid bare to see. Except to his rabid, foaming at the mouth supporters.

That he followed a president who made history, becoming the first mixed-race president and defeated the first major-party woman candidate in history, was seen as a repudiation of Obama and Clinton and the ‘triangulation politics,’ that defined the quarter-century prior to the Libidinous Visitor’s taking the Oath on that terrible Friday.