Number One at Something
- Mike Dickey
- Apr 21
- 1 min read
A lovely morning out there, clear and forty degrees.
But my mood doesn't match, not at all.
Reading the Times this morning, I came across an essay by a young mother who lost her daughter to measles. The child contracted the disease at five months old, too young for vaccination, from a neighbor kid who almost certainly was not. She survived, only to die over a dozen years later of a fatal brain swelling that is a known complication of measles. It was an excruciating read.
Then my favorite writer on the NYT editorial board, Thomas Edsall, wrote what for him was a pretty brief piece on the observation that Trump will go down as the most consequential president in American history, for all of the irreparable damage and needless death he's caused by his stupid and reckless actions.
Edsall concludes by placing the blame exactly where it should lie:
All of which points to one more indelible bequeathal: the stain on America left by the record.
Voters in this country twice elected a president with no ethics, no empathy and no end to his narcissism.
My neighbors did this. Beyond stupid. Simple despicable.
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