Well-Worth Reading

Usually on the weekend, I post an audio of Al Franken's podcast.  I still have something from him today and from his website, but instead it's a piece he wrote, "The Last Straw."  You can probably figure out his theme, even without reading a word.

But the words add a lot of insight.  Of particular note is his passage --

"Until this crisis, Trump has paid no real price for his constant, pathological mendacity. Before politics, the man had spent his entire career in a business where, evidently, there was no accountability for inveterate lying.

"But for this crisis there is accountability. And instead of leading, Donald Trump’s focus has been where it always has been – on Donald Trump."

Franken later continues, "Of course, no leader could have prevented the devastation that this virus has and will continue to exact. But because Trump’s focus has been on himself, his reelection, and his fragile self-image, our federal government squandered our most valuable commodity.  And the amount of suffering which that lost time will cost our nation is as tragic as it is unknowable."

It's not very long, and all very good.  You can read the whole thing here.