Over the last 40+ years the Republican Party lost its way. After Trump was illegitimately elected it abandoned what was left of its principles and morals and the people of the United States of America. Every Republican in name only politician now owes his or her election to special interests. They lie to get your vote and then turn their backs on your needs and wishes.

In one of his movies Brad Pitt delivered an interesting line: “America is not a country, it’s a business.” This is mostly fact as long as the right-wing has any control in Washington. Beginning with the Reagan administration, the working class, low income, and the poor have become less and less important with each passing year. Under Trump’s fascist regime they have completely forgotten their responsibilities to the women and men who elected them.

In June 2015 when Trump announced his bid for the Republican Party’s nomination, I hoped it was a ploy for attention and not a serious effort to lead our nation. I have read the history of the Trump Klan for years and was fully aware of his family’s bigotry, his personal business failures, assistance from foreign nations, sexual deviance, and racism. I knew that if he became the president and a disaster occurred, the American people would suffer. He would be unable and unwilling to face a crisis in our nation. Sadly, the coronavirus is proof that I was right.

No one knew at the time that Vladimir Putin was planning to aid Trump’s effort to live in what he called our nation’s “old and decrepit White House.”

However, I did know that Trump was lying when he claimed that he did not know the Russian president. They first met in Moscow in 1987, and again in the Russian capital in 2005 and 2013.

Trump’s failure to take immediate action when he learned of a possible pandemic has cost our nation thousands of lives. If we examine his actions, and more importantly his inaction, we see that the worst president in history was more concerned with America’s businesses than the American people. The mistake he made was that the American working class is the majority and we will vote in November. America’s biggest corporations will give him millions of dollars in campaign contributions, but they have only a few votes on election day.

He treated the coronavirus with a focus on America as a business rather than a nation of 330 million men, women, and children. He ignored the people and he, and his party, served special interests. Profit before people; standard operating procedure for the right wing.

Trump is a failed businessman and nothing proves this more than his economic failures. His gifts to the wealthy and large corporations reduced our national income and added trillions of dollars to the national debt.

I do not like or believe in “professional politicians.” There is no praise for individuals who have led lives of privilege for decades in Washington. They become useless after two terms in the senate and four in the House. Term limits would make our government functional once again where deliberation and compromise would return to Washington.

When a president is elected, he or she must have federal experience. Washington is its own world and an outsider is generally ineffective. The only manner in which a non-politician can be effective is if he or she surrounds himself or herself with the most qualified advisers in the nation. This was the situation with Bill Clinton. President Obama was very qualified, but he also chose extremely talented men and women for his cabinet and closest advisers.

Trump chose the worst: millionaires and billionaires who received quid pro quo for their history of financial support for Republican candidates. His cabinet and upper level advisers are the most incompetent and biased men and women in the history of the government of the United States of America.

America has become more of a business than a country, but we can change that. By placing the people first and forcing millionaires and billionaires to take care of themselves, the dream of our founding fathers can become a reality. By removing self-serving Republicans from Washington, we can win the second revolution; and that revolution is on November 3, 2020. Please vote.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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