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President Trump on Thursday volunteered to Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, that he “very recently” took a test at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center measuring his mental acuity and “aced” it, but the White House would not say when he took it or why.
Mr. Trump boasted that his success on the test surprised his doctors as he continued his attempt to make a campaign issue of whether his presumptive Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., was mentally fit.
“I actually took one when I — very recently, when I — when I was — the radical left were saying, is he all there? Is he all there? And I proved I was all there, because I got — I aced it. I aced the test,” Mr. Trump, 74, said in his interview with Mr. Hannity.
He went on to say that Mr. Biden should also take the test.
“And he should take the same exact test, a very standard test. I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors,” Mr. Trump said. “And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did. But he should take that same test.”
The country is burning, literally and figuratively, torn apart first by a deadly virus and then by protests and violence in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis. It may not seem like the ideal moment in American history to talk about reforming the American political system, but it is imperative to do so.
The public response to the crises confronting us, nationally and locally, has exposed the deep dysfunction of American politics. Partisanship infects everything, pushing every politician and citizen to pick a side when there should be only one side—the American side. Playing politics with medicine or with face masks during a pandemic should be the lowest possible point, a sign that we’ve badly lost our way.
Shouldn’t everyone be in favor of better science and protocols for fighting COVID-19? Of more humane policing and less violence in the streets? Of course, everyone says they want those things, but too many are unwilling to compromise in any way to get them.
Compromise today is seen as weakness. Getting nothing done is seen as preferable to getting something done if progress requires any concessions to the other side. The volume of the national conversation has been raised to a shouting contest. Elections come only every few years, but Twitter is all day, every day.
In this battle for attention, holding the most extreme position and using the most outrageous rhetoric is often the winning play. The current president is the most obvious example of the triumph of this method and Trump’s victory in 2016 was both a symptom of the problem and a warning of what is to come if the system is not reformed.
... Morally degenerate; corrupt
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