While Donald Trump faces a steeper challenge to win his next and final election, I have to assume that he will win again. Incumbents usually win. And while Trump could lose Michigan, North Carolina and even Texas (which would trigger a Democratic landslide), I still have to set my expectations that Trump will win. Because 2020 is already the worst year for the US since 1968. It might be the worst year since the end of the Civil War.

It isn’t yet March, and this transparently criminal president has been given a new, expanded pass by his party to commit any crime he wants. And holy shit did he go straight to work, plotting revenge, trying to extort immunity from my home state, using the DOJ as his personal legal defense firm, and getting all the chances he wants to cheat in his final election.

I have mentally prepared. The Democrats are a mess. They could get Trump’s New York State tax returns in just days. They refuse, for dubious legal and political reasons. I seriously fear that my mind will be permanently damaged by another Trump term. Maybe if I learned another language or read more books, it would help me maintain my cognitive sharpness. But I feel different after three years of Trump, and I don’t think it’s simply aging. He has hurt tens of millions of us.

Just to make sure 2020 is the worst year of my life, there is a distinct possibility that Roe will be effectively overturned by the Supreme Court in June.

Slate is usually the light version of the Washington Post. But this piece by William Saletan last year is impressive. Trump is treacherous.

That’s an excellent case by case account of Trump: his disloyalty to America, the House members, the Senators. I knew flattery would get anyone immediately on his side. Bad enough! But he's thrown American citizens under the bus, consistently, at the expense of refusing to put America and Americans first, which is the opposite of what he sells to voters. He is just plain evil, coupled with stupidity! I have vivid memories of Erdoğan’s goons beating up on Americans in broad daylight just weeks into Trump’s first term. I thought at first that it wasn't really happening! 

How did we end up with him? How dumb and naive are Americans! I often tie his presidency to our public schools. We have certain states like Texas that control the flow of information to students by choosing more than questionable texts. In some areas students are not allowed to ask questions about what are called "certain subjects." Any class that prevents the flow of accurate information to students is one small part of an uninformed electorate.

Trump is a danger to all of us. He still wants to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. Whom is he trying to please by that? Or more to the point, his hatred of Obama is sick. Trump says he operates on which people he should trust? That only means that the worst dictators in the world can wrap him around their fingers, and they have, simply by flattering him. By then, it's too late. Those fascists have him in complete tow. He's been flattered! And his ignorance and blind ego win the day and dominate us all.