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Whatever Comes Next, It’s Not Going to be Good
I’m not cheering
end of 2016
They cannot ethically diagnose
him without examining him, but
they’ve called for him to be eval-
uated.
One area of concern to
by J ill r iChardSon
them is his thin skin and im-
If you thought 2016
pulsiveness. Instead of pay-
was bad, I have bad
ing attention to the tragedy in
news: Buckle up.
Aleppo, for example, he took
Hopefully
2017
to Twitter to attack a come-
won’t bring the deaths
dy show and a magazine that
of more beloved ce-
lebrities, and I doubt we’ll see the gave his restaurant a lousy review.
Second, he isn’t bothered by
killing of any more famous goril-
facts, or perhaps cannot tell the
las.
But one element that made 2016
terrible isn’t going anywhere. It’s
actually getting worse.
You can call it the Trump phe-
nomenon, polarization among
Americans, or whatever you want
to call it. From my vantage point,
Trump’s transition team is making
some troubling decisions that are
going to reverberate well into next
year, and the ones to come after it.
Even before the man’s in office,
Trumpocracy is already beyond
my worst nightmares. It’s so aw-
ful that it’s hard to even keep track
of everything I need to be angry difference between truth and lies.
about. But here’s my best attempt. When the FBI and CIA agreed that
First, there’s the strange per- Russia interfered with our elec-
sonal behavior of the man himself. tion, he refused to believe them.
But meanwhile he claims that
Already some psychiatrists
have raised alarm that he ex- millions of people voted against
hibits traits seen in people with him illegally, which got a “pants
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. on fire” rating from Politifact.
Perhaps if he’d attended those
boring intelligence briefings, he’d
have the facts about Russian hack-
ing, but he claims he’s too smart to
bother with those.
This is a security threat. The
Russians didn’t just hack the Dem-
ocrats — according to more recent
reports, they hacked the Repub-
licans, too. They have leverage
against Trump’s own party. Trump
needs to know about information
that could possibly be used against
him, or against our country.
The Russians didn’t just hack
the Democrats — according
to more recent reports, they
hacked the Republicans, too.
They have leverage against
Trump’s own party.
Third, there are his conflicts of
interest. Since Trump has so far
refused to put his assets in a blind
trust, there’s the risk that Trump
will use the presidency to enrich
himself and his family.
Instead, he’s placed his chil-
dren at the helm of his business
empire, even as he also includes
them in official government busi-
ness. That’s not OK.
Previous presidents went to
great lengths to avoid even the
appearance of conflicts of interest.
Trump doesn’t care. He’ll contin-
ue to do as he pleases up to the
point of breaking the law, and per-
haps beyond it if he thinks he can
get away with it.
After all, he knows his Repub-
lican Congress probably won’t
impeach him, no matter what he
does.
Fourth, there are his appoint-
ments. They run the gamut from
white supremacists to anti-envi-
ronment extremists. He so often
places someone who wishes to
destroy an agency in charge of
that very agency that Saturday
Night Live joked he picked Walter
White, the meth dealer from TV’s
Breaking Bad, to lead the DEA.
As we enter 2017, I’m not
among the crowd cheering the end
of 2016. Whatever comes next,
it’s not going to be good. Let’s
prepare to fight our way through
this thing.
OtherWords columnist Jill
Richardson is the author of Rec-
ipe for America: Why Our Food
System Is Broken and What We
Can Do to Fix It. Distributed by
OtherWords.org.