When future historians excavate the smoldering ruins of what was America BT (Before Trump), they’ll be stunned by our grotesque perversion of what was once a great democracy: how we elevated the most dangerously unqualified people to positions where they could inflict maximum devastation with unprecedented ruthlessness.
America hasn’t merely scaled the heights of lunacy — we’ve rocketed past them into a stratosphere of self-destructive madness previously thought unreachable. A billionaire who lives off government money now dictates “government efficiency.” A foreign policy novice with the diplomatic skills of a wrecking ball betrays allies while cynically invoking Christ. And a man whose scientific knowledge wouldn’t fill a thimble now controls the nation’s health. Behold America’s Three* Horsemen of Trump’s Apocalypse — galloping forth not simpl…
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