Cynthia A. Baldwin: The suicide of democracy

Trump is back in the presidency and he is Making America Selfish Again. How? By taking the United States out of the World Health Organization, by taking the United States out of the Paris Accords, by stating he is taking back the Panama Canal, by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and by threatening to take Greenland from Denmark. It appears that Donald John Trump is remaking the United States of America in his own image. He is using his role as president to enrich himself and his family in the cryptocurrency and real estate businesses and to further enrich his cronies through tax policies and deregulation. He does not want to share the riches of our God-blessed nation with the poor and downtrodden. He cares more for himself than he does about the health of our children and our elderly. He cares more for himself than he does about the condition of the earth that we will leave to our progeny. He is vindictive, always trying to exact revenge on those he perceives as having either done something to him or having done something he does not like, and then he wraps...