Only 5/12 gone, but one horrible year already

It's been a helluva year, hasn't it.

Five months gone out of 12, and we've gone from a toxic presidential campaign to a virus that has killed more than a hundred thousand Americans to a racial incident in Minnesota that is turning everything upside down.

George Floyd's death in Minneapolis at the hands -- or more accurately, the knee -- of a racist police officer has resulted in demonstrations and/or riots all over this country and in Europe as well.

It seems as if President Trump has become such a disaster that the whole world is watching America even more than usual.


With all the horrible things happening this year, the question doesn't seem to be whether we can survive four more years of Trump. I'm wondering if we can make it through eight more months.

In 2020 alone:

-- More than 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits, many of them losing jobs that will never come back.

-- Racial tensions are higher than they have been in years, and Trump has been exacerbating the situation with outrageous racist comments.

-- The economy has taken the biggest hit since 1929, and with consumer confidence at an all-time low, it won't be coming back any time soon.

The real problem is that it's an election year, and there really isn't any middle ground that can be reached.

Particularly with Trump, who seems to be getting more and more panicky about whether he can fool enough people to be re-elected.

I'm guessing he can't.

Or at least I'm hoping he can't.