Deaths from Covid in Mo up 36% over the last 14 days. Covid cases up 13%. Those increases almost entirely in the parts of the state that heavily support Trump. As one Trump supporter told me...”Hell, I wont wear a mask. I support the President.”

The Trump Presidency will go down in history for many things. One of them will be the serious erosion of institutional trust. H/T my lawyer daughter.

So just when you think he is lower than a snake’s belly, he manages to go lower. He called Justice Ruth Badger Ginsberg’s granddaughter a liar on national television this morning. Let’s go grandmothers. Get busy and vote these fools out. #womenvote 

In the last 7 Presidential elections the Republican candidate got the most votes exactly once. That is not a mandate. That is not when you strong arm the country into a right wing court. That is when you get serious about abolishing the electoral college.

It is painfully obvious that the Republicans are scared to death of the people. They want to take away their ability to speak on the Supreme Court and they cheer when a court says ballots won’t count. That’s not a majority, that’s a quivering minority.

First charging mayors with sedition, then “anarchist jurisdiction” and now refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power. There is a theme here. And it is NOT AMERICAN.

It is a sign of our times that reading this note brought tears to my eyes.