Donald J. Trump is the worst of us.

He is the ugliest American.

He is a garbage human being.

But we know that. Every morning, the most optimistic among us wake up and check their news feeds in the hope that something has happened overnight that will bring an end to our shared national nightmare.

Trump, for his part, however, daily tries to find new ways to drive home the message that never has a lesser man held high office in America, never has a more defective human being had so much power in our country.

You almost have to give him credit for the scope of his efforts. Pick a character failing and each week he will remind you that he not only has it, but that he wants to make a show of it like a hippopotamus in heat, flicking s–t and piss in every direction in order to attract a mate.

One day, he will let us know yet again that he is the greediest, most corrupt man to ever hold high office in the United States. On another, he will display ignorance at a level seldom seen among primates. Then will come his racism or misogyny; a reminder that he is a serial sex criminal. A fraudster. A liar. Then his pettiness or narcissism or vindictiveness or short-sightedness comes to the fore. Then he’ll let us see for ourselves yet again his disloyalty to family, to friends, to supporters and to this country.

Often, we see all these things at once. He is not just an execrable human........

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