If you let 200 thousand Americans die because you value the stock market more than human life, you haven’t made America great.
If you praise an all white audience for their good genes to promote white supremacy, you haven’t made America great.
If you try stripping health coverage from 20 million Americans with preexisting conditions to replace it with nothing, you haven’t made America great.
If you refuse to condemn Russian bounties on the heads of American soldiers because you want Putin to like you, you haven’t made America great.
If you separate immigrant families and place kids in cages to look tough to racists, you haven’t made America great.
If you send troops into urban areas only to foment further violence, you haven’t made America great.
If you tamper with our mail service to make democracy function worse, you haven’t made America great.
If you teargas innocent civilians because you don’t understand that dissent is the bedrock of democracy, you haven’t made America great.
If you routinely alienate our allies while pandering to our enemies, you haven’t made America great.
If you’re only path to re-election is engendering white fear of their black brethren, you haven’t made America great.
If you actively solicit foreign interference in our electoral systems, you haven’t made America great.
If you use the power of the presidency for your own personal, political gain, you haven’t made America great.
If you hide behind naked jingoism to discredit those opposing police brutality, you haven’t made America great.
If you want to remove the reproductive liberties that three-quarters of American support, you haven’t made America great.
If you regularly downplay a pandemic and lie about medical cures, you haven’t made America great.
If you believe 50 million unemployed is acceptable because all your friends are rich, you haven’t made America great.
If you mock POWs & Gold Star families and think war heroes are “suckers” and “losers,” you haven’t made America great.
If you consider yourself the President only of states that voted for you and view everyone else as your enemy, you haven’t made America great.
If you’re only way off demonstrating strength is to demonize society’s most vulnerable, you haven’t made America great.
If you’re only path to another four years is to scapegoat people of color, you haven’t made America great.
If you think a ruler is above the law, you don’t understand the tenets of democracy and you haven’t made America great.
If you attack peaceful protest and a free, unfettered press, you haven’t made America great.
In fact, not only have you not made America great, you have made it substantially weaker. A mere shell of its previous promise.
And anyone who so thoroughly misunderstands what actually makes America great doesn’t deserve another four years at its helm.
Because as great as American can be, I don’t believe we can survive another four years of Donald Trump’s “improvements.”
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