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What went wrong with America?
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
In 1977 Mel Brooks produced a movie called “High Anxiety” and it dawned on me this week, after all of the trauma since November 3, that this is the feeling most average Americans are now experiencing – high anxiety.
The election is over. Joe Biden is now the President-elect of the United States. But Donald Trump has locked himself in the bathroom and refuses to come out. And to make matters worse, his GOP colleagues are accepting this behavior as normal. It makes many of us wonder what in the hell America has come to.
With a coronavirus pandemic raging across America, with people dying needlessly, and with an economy about to sink into the abyss, we are wondering if there will ever be such a thing as normal. All of the abnormal antics of the child in the White House have been accepted by the Republicans. Trump is being treated like a naughty child whose abnormal behavior will cause no harm.
His refusal to admit defeat and to make every effort to overturn the legitimate election and his refusal to allow a normal presidential transition is doing great harm to this country.


Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota) is the founder of the Native American Journalists Association and of Indian Country Today. Contact him at najournalist1@gmail.com
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