THE announcement of President Biden's quitting the race on the weekend after the four-day circus-like enthronement of Trump as a cult leader at the GOP convention was a stroke of genius. In one fell swoop, the afterglow turned into a chilling gloom when Biden pulled the rug from underneath the basically Biden-centric GOP campaign strategy. They didn't have a plan B. There were no issues on public policies that Trump can boast of during his four-year term comparable to Biden's, except for his false claims on how good the economy was under him and how he caused the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade. Now, he had to backtrack on abortion and leave the issues to the states. A confusing reversal that is costing him women's votes. Thus, he had to skirt discussions on public issues, the economy, foreign relations and, more particularly, the Covid pandemic — where Trump, with his criminal incompetence, caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans. The lingering image of Trump's stupidity is his suggestion to arrest and cure Covid by passing a light through the body and injecting bleaching agents defines his sad response to America's pandemic tragedy. The man is insane!
From exultation to despair
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