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johnpavlovitz on Instagram: "...If he finishes his second term, Donald Trump will have been president for 2,920 days.If asked by someone in the future to summar…"
...If he finishes his second term, Donald Trump will have been president for 2,920 days.If asked by someone in the future to summarize in a single word, the scope and scale of the collective injury we’ve sustained as a people and a nation during that time, the word I keep coming back to is waste.These 2,920 days will have simply been a terrible, unforgivable, unthinkable waste.A waste of time: the countless hours that so many people from every walk of life hadto spend trying to care for people, rebuild their communities, save lives, fight for justice, and do good work, all while facing their own president astheir greatest adversary.A waste of financial resources: adding trillions of dollars to our national debt, stratospheric corporate bailouts, a widening in the gap between survival and opulence, a brazen predatory economic assault on the poor and the sick.A waste of natural resources: a steady stream of environmental protectionrollbacks, wanton disregard for nature and planet and science, and an open contempt for the delicate web of all living things.A waste of energy: the emotional, physical, and mental drain on so many decent people who’ve spent their exhausting days and sleepless nights trying to reckon with a steadfast malevolence that defied reason and escaped comprehension.A waste of ideas: a systematic shutting down of diverse and qualified people: doctors, economists, educators, scientists, creators, and public servants, whose well-educated presence served as a threat to the eggshell ego and twitchy ignorance of a historically insecure man-child...
