(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.)
". . . It was all so unnecessary. Nobody would have bolted from Donald's base if he had embraced a commonsense approach to COVID. Tens of thousands of lives would have been spared, and the economy, after a short-term hit, would have bounced back. His most deranged supporters would have hailed him as a hero - and a lot of his detractors would have, too. But Donald is constitutionally incapable of leading. . . "
(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal, by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.)
". . . He made the pivot to the Big Lie in the earl morning hours after Election Day, before the results were even announced. He completely believed that he could turn things around. There was no reason for him not to - he always had. And let's face it, seventy-four million of us, if the 2020 election results are any indication, never felt that they'd been betrayed at all. Or, worse, those voters put the betrayal to the side because they understood the degree to which having g a white supremacist in the Oval Office benefitted them . . . "
