It wasn’t too long ago that I considered Newt Gingrich a candidate for the worst of the worst. A little while later, my more progressive college students considered Dick Cheney to be the most evil man in America—but he managed to raise Lynne Cheney, so he can’t be all bad. Then there were the Trump years: campaign and time in office. Wow. Perhaps when compared to Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he looks a little tame. Certainly, he is no match for the leaders of ISIS and the Taliban. Nonetheless, he is a wanna be tyrant and did incalculable damage to democracy and society.
Now racing to catch up to Trump’s mendacity and hubris—and perhaps even more dangerous to America—is the governor of Florida, DeSantis.
D Despotic
E Evil
S Sadistic
A Atrocious
N Nazi
T Tyrant
I Intolerant
S Supremacist
……..
Trump
T Tyrant
R Ruthless
U Unaccountable
M Misogynist
P Prevaricator
If the 2024 election is meant to select the most heinous man in America, it would be a tossup between these two with Ted Cruz in third place. Of course, there is always Marjorie Taylor Greene, if you want to throw a woman into the race.
I’m going back to bed, pulling the covers over my head, and hoping for better choices for Americans.
The Scariest Man in America
It wasn’t too long ago that I considered Newt Gingrich a candidate for the worst of the worst. A little while later, my more progressive college students considered Dick Cheney to be the most evil man in America—but he managed to raise Lynne Cheney, so he can’t be all bad. Then there were the Trump years: campaign and time in office. Wow. Perhaps when compared to Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he looks a little tame. Certainly, he is no match for the leaders of ISIS and the Taliban. Nonetheless, he is a wanna be tyrant and did incalculable damage to democracy and society.
Now racing to catch up to Trump’s mendacity and hubris—and perhaps even more dangerous to America—is the governor of Florida, DeSantis.
D Despotic
E Evil
S Sadistic
A Atrocious
N Nazi
T Tyrant
I Intolerant
S Supremacist
……..
Trump
T Tyrant
R Ruthless
U Unaccountable
M Misogynist
P Prevaricator
If the 2024 election is meant to select the most heinous man in America, it would be a tossup between these two with Ted Cruz in third place. Of course, there is always Marjorie Taylor Greene, if you want to throw a woman into the race.
I’m going back to bed, pulling the covers over my head, and hoping for better choices for Americans.
Carole J. Garrison 