When President Donald Trump delivered his bleak inauguration speech on Jan. 20, 2017, one declarative line clearly was immediately the most memorable: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”Though the country was far from perfect at the end of President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, the “American carnage” coinage was overwrought. But as he wiles away his last hours in the White House, his hopes for his own two-term presidency cut short, “American carnage” is all too apt a description of the legacy Trump is leaving behind.And while the mainstream consensus is forming around the conclusion …read more
Source:: AlterNet
