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Robert Archerd
10 min readFeb 7, 2021

Trump’s Perfect Storm

Robert Archerd, February 7, 2021

Like them or not, all previous presidents since Nixon appeared for the most part to be decent, law-abiding, reasonable and perfectly normal individuals, all with the interest at heart of the nation as a whole.

Then came Donald Trump, who shares none of the above qualities. And if you’ve read my previous seven Medium articles on Trump, you know I’ve spelled out in exhausting detail why he’s the single worst president we’ve had, if not ever than certainly in my lifetime (I date back to FDR).

What’s more, you can take the definition of evil from any source from any society from any era in the history of mankind, match what all behaviors described as evil have in common, and it will match Donald Trump’s known and documented behavior to a T. And I challenge you to point out where any of what was just stated is even slightly inaccurate.

There are a great many of us who recognized Trump’s staggering incompetence from the get-go, then watched as during the final days of his Constitution-shredding and democracy-trampling presidency, he sicced a violent mob onto our Capitol building, wreaking unprecedented havoc while taking the lives of five Americans.

So how did everything go so terribly wrong? How could we allow such a travesty to occur in our America — especially when we could see it coming?

It seems the forces that gave us Donald J. Trump merged so harmoniously as to become one. A large faction of White Christianity, aka the…

Robert Archerd
Robert Archerd

Written by Robert Archerd

Retired math/science educator, specialty in cognitive & moral development. Author of math & science programs , taught K thru grad level university.

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