But in some bizarre way, Trump won this election. Overall, a perversion of the once vaunted conservative leanings of the Republican Party.” (“America’s precarious fling with Trump,” The Manila Times, Nov. 4, 2020.) Trump, the loser has become Trump the winner through this aberrant legacy he leaves behind. This will effectively deprive 20 million Americans of health care insurance coverage at a time when Covid-19 is wreaking havoc with more than 11 million cases and 250,000 deaths. In four years, Trump presided over the waning of the American hegemony and may even have accelerated its economic decline.

Source: Manila Times November 17, 2020 16:12 UTC