One more day of the Trump administration – Red Bluff Daily News

One more day of having a raging personality disorder in the White House. This stable genius who isnt. This desperately small man who staged a failed coup on the 6th of January. This weak man who doesnt have the ego strength to admit defeat, nor the grace to congratulate the winner. This frightened man who slinks away to his Florida estate without attending the inauguration of his successor.

Trump is undoubtedly the worst president we have ever had in modern times or are likely to ever see again.

Some folks around here disagree enamored with the Trump Cult and badly in need of deprogramming. My comrade on the right side of this page called him the best president ever. Excuse me?

Of course, Republicans only have a couple moves left in their playbook. If it doesnt involve tax cuts for the wealthy, spending cuts for single moms or obscene increases in military spending, the Republicans just dont know what to do. They have become one dimensional. Do these things, or say these words, and you will continue to get votes around here until time in memorial.

Which is probably why Trump messed up on COVID. They have taken Reagans pejoratively famous nine worst words Im from the government and Im here to help and have turned that into an item of faith; a chiseled commandment in the rock of right-wing ideology.

The fact is some problems are best solved by government. By working together. We are about to see a new philosophy of good government emerge when Biden takes the reins on Wednesday. And he inherits a real mess. Luckily, he has a Democratically controlled Senate and House poised to save the day.

It is deja vu all over again. Remember 2009, when Obama took over and the economy was in a free fall? We have a similar situation this time, possibly even worse. In 2009, the Democrats had the House and the Senate and they led the way out of the Great Recession. They will lead the way out of this challenge too.

Republicans break things; Democrats know how to fix things. It is as simple as that. The people of Georgia knew that when they had the wit to vote in two Democratic senators in our time of need. We all need to eat a peach in gratitude for the wisdom Georgia has shown the country.

Last week, the normally conservative Chico Enterprise Record called on Rep. Doug LaMalfa to resign. LaMalfas antics on national TV where he embarrassed northern California by bringing up skepticism of the moon landing on Chris Cuomos show was just the start of a very bad post-election season for LaMalfa.

Doug has been in lockstep with Trump for the past few years. Congressman LaMalfa joined in with those who tried to undue the 2020 election by challenging the electoral votes of two states. This after the failed coup of Trump zealots storming the Capitol and briefly holding the building while Confederate flags were paraded around Statuary Hall.

But in a move that might cost severe illness or even death for a peer, he refused to wear a mask while in cramped quarters with other Congressmen and women during the occupation of the Capitol building. They spent hours hiding in a meeting room where a colleague, Lisa Blunt, offered him a mask. LaMalfa refused, while a fellow Republican said he didnt want to make the situation political. LaMalfa succumbed to Republican politically incorrect peer pressure just like any high school student. Shame.

Three Democratic lawmakers have since tested positive for COVID, including a stage 4 cancer survivor, and they blame the time spent with Doug and his COVID Mary colleagues as their probable exposure.

How sad is that? What kind of leadership is that? No wonder Tehama County has a nation leading 44% COVID test positivity rate. The rest of California has a 12.6% rate.

Doug LaMalfa has become a zealot for the anti-science, anti-common-sense, extremist right-wing of the Republican Party. He not only has become toxic for our democracy, he now has become toxic for the best way, besides the vaccine, that we have for combating a virus that sickens and kills his constituents.

The Chico ER is correct: LaMalfa should resign and return to the government subsidized rice ranch he inherited.

Audrey Denney would have been a much better congressional representative for us. Maybe someday we will learn to vote for the best candidate rather than just voting for the candidate with the R behind his or her name.

Allan Stellar is an RN and a freelance writer who moved to Red Bluff after the Camp Fire. He can be reached at Allan361@aol.com.

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