Donald Trump is setting himself on fire

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Donald Trump’s catastrophically failed reign has led to hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, a broken economy, and a total mess. The entire country is metaphorically on fire, and in some states it’s literally on fire. So it’s perhaps darkly fitting that Trump seems intent on ending this by setting himself on fire.

Trump is now holding rallies in multiple states, despite clearly being too sick and weak to pull it off. He appears to be abusing steroids just to make it through the day, and he doesn’t understand or care that it’ll end up killing him. He’s exposing his own voters to coronavirus, meaning some of them will be too sick (or dead) to vote by election day, and again he doesn’t understand or doesn’t care. He’s tweeting insults at the senior citizen voters he needs to win over the most, because he’s just that far gone.

Donald Trump is setting himself on fire right in front of our eyes. That doesn’t mean he’ll automatically lose; it just means that he’s (wittingly or unwittingly) trying to lose. It’s still up to us to work hard on voter turnout and make sure we run up the score, to overcome all the chaos and variables floating around. But wow is Trump ever trying to take himself down before we can.

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