The Washington Post published 8 editorials simultaneously titled "Our Democracy in Danger" on what it called the damage President Donald Trump has inflicted on this democracy, and what is expected if he wins a second term.
She said that the damage Trump could do to the American democratic experience if he took office again, would be killed.
Each of the newspaper's eight editorials focused on a specific issue.
The following is a brief review of the contents of the editorials:
• Trump's negligence, ignorance and misconduct turned what would have been a great challenge for any president into a national disaster, as he lied 20,000 times during his time in office to this day.
And he promoted that he personally, his presidency, and the American people are innocent victims of the "Covid-19" epidemic.
In addition to his lie about the economic boom that witnessed the 3 years of his presidency, while the truth is that this boom began since the late term of former President Barack Obama and did not stop until after the onset of the Corona epidemic.
Brutal and ceaseless devastation
History will record that Trump's presidency was a process of brutal, continuous and tragic destruction.
America's position in the world, its relationship with allies, commitment to democratic values, as well as constitutional checks and balances, belief in reason and science, concern for the health of the earth, respect for public service, not to mention a belief in civility and honest discussion, America being a beacon for needy refugees, and the aspiration for equality, diversity and basic decency, all have been made. Trump burned it.
Trump pushed and strengthened tyranny in the world, and undermined the values of freedom and democracy.
And the matter now ends that regimes founded on democracy and human rights, which seemed to have triumphed 25 years ago, are now facing a serious challenge from a renewed tyranny that uses new techniques to reshape the tyranny that neither Nazi Germany nor the Soviet Union could withstand.
The current world order is at stake, as are individual freedoms, freedom of expression, assembly and religious belief.
• At a time when presidents are expected to determine the general national orientation, we find that Trump has inflicted a disaster in his country by transforming the president's office into a private office, unlike constitutional monarchs or prime ministers in European and other regimes.
Trump achieved what America's founders had feared and warned of, which was the fall of the presidency in the hands of a populist president who focused on the instincts of demagogues in order to win their liking.
Its influence on the political culture of the American people over the past 3 years has been more harmful than anything else.
The Washington Post: Trump lied 20,000 times during his term in office until today (Reuters)
• If Trump continues for another 4 years while continuing his disdain for competence, his destruction of the country will be certain and irreversible. He has promoted the belief that “experts are terrible” and that anyone with a degree and years of experience can work in any area of government, and he can do so well. Better depending on instinct.
The White House has acted according to this philosophy over the past three years and that has had a devastating effect.
From debt to taxes to renewable energy, then trade, jobs, and infrastructure to defense, the president has declared himself the best understood of all in the whole country.
The science advisor position has been left vacant for 19 months, and more than a third of the senior positions in the Pentagon or Department of Homeland Security have not been appointed, and most of the workforce in the Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service may be fired after his administration suddenly relocated the agency to Kansas City.
And the best kind of expert, in Trump's view, is the one who is not at all independent.
He will close the doors of America
In a new term, Trump will close America’s doors. Without congressional approval, the president has reworked nearly every major aspect of the US immigration system over the past 3 years, reducing levels of legal and illegal arrivals, refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Muslims and Christians.
He sought to revoke the citizenship of naturalized Americans and subjected the so-called "dreamers" who had grown up in America to deportation.
• Trump broke his promise to “drain the swamp.” That was a major promise of Trump's first campaign, which was that he would root out corruption in the capital and install a government that would serve ordinary Americans, not private interests.
Not only was this pledge fulfilled, like most of his electoral promises, but it shattered this promise by mixing public and private interests.
In a second period, this will be done in an unprecedented manner.
Free from the restrictions of the law
• Under Trump's rule, without the restrictions of the law, the system of "checks and balances" was destroyed in America. Trump promised in 2016 that he would protect "Article One, Article Two, and Article Twelve!"
Of the Constitution (there is no Article 12).
Instead, he demonstrated the fragility of the constitutional system when the president did not respect the rule of law, did not mature the position, but rather learned how to misuse his powers more effectively.
The damage in this area may not be repaired.
The president's primary responsibility is to use the tremendous power of his position fairly and impartially, but Trump has shown that he has a different understanding. The law has a weapon with which to reward loyalists, punish enemies, and scare anyone else in order to stand on his side.
Trump's contempt for truth leaves a toxic legacy around the world.
If he is defeated in the upcoming elections, much of the damage he has caused to the political system and international alliances of the United States can be repaired, but part of Trump's toxic legacy is also likely to persist, which is his shattering of truth as a common value and necessity in public life.