Like a second (or in his case, a third) marriage, the vote to award Donald Trump a second presidential term is the ultimate triumph of hope over experience. Americans decided to ignore his disastrous first term in anticipation that he is a changed man who might do better this time.

Good luck with that.

With Republican control of the White House, the Senate and probably the House, Trump is poised to do much more damage than he did during his first term when millions of Americans lost their jobs and 400,000 poor souls lost their lives because he dismissed the deadly pandemic as a “hoax.”

The Trump-dominated Supreme Court gave him a get out jail free card with its tragic ruling on presidential immunity. The high court is in his back pocket and is likely to back up anything dangerous that he does. He is now set to cause even more destruction than he did the first time around.

Trump once boasted that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in New York City and not lose a vote. This was never more correct than it is........

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