No excuses:
This is apt as well:
I’m not one to valorize the military and I believe strongly in civilian control. But that belief has never been so tested as it is today with a deranged moron in the White House. It’s a terrible position to be in.
But I have to confess that I have often lain awake at night worrying about what would happen if we had a major foreign threat or crisis that put millions at risk. I think we know the answer to that, don’t we?
Trump has made it quite clear that he’s willing to allow hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths because he thinks it will help him get re-elected. His response to the pandemic was magical thinking, then anger at the fact that it was making him look bad and now simply ignoring it and demanding that everyone pretend it’s all over. Indeed, he seems to think he can convince people it really never happened at all:
This man in charge during an existential threat … is an existential threat.