After three-plus years of total Trump craziness, we're well aware that there have probably been plenty of times we've said, "Wow, the Administration is really going off the rails today." But we have to say: Tonight it seems like a total unraveling.
Crowds are gathering outside the White House, throughout DC and across the country, protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Donald Trump's despicable reaction to it. (He's stoking the race war the white supremacists always wanted.) In the midst of this, plus a pandemic that they've mismanaged to the tune of 100,000 American deaths and Depression-era levels of unemployment, the Trumpsters at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have gone into lockdown.
The people's house is in lockdown. Let that sink in, as they say.
We cats were in the Carter Administration, and we're the first to admit that we were not exactly popular when we left office. (As opposed to now, when thousands of Carter groupies descend on Plains every year.) But good God — we never had to put the White House in lockdown.
Joe Biden has already addressed the nation, but he should think about doing it again. America needs it. Perhaps he can consult Robert F. Kennedy's speech in Indiana the night Martin Luther King was killed:
"What we need in the United States is not division, what we need in the United States is not hatred, what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.
"We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. We will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence, it is not the end of lawlessness, it is not the end of disorder. But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings who abide in our land.
"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people."
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