Remember Chernobyl. Because that's where we are now.

                                                   Chernobyl is too toxic for any living thing.

A large portion of Ukraine is off limits after the worst nuclear accident in history blew up the reactor at Chernobyl.  About 1,000 square miles of the region is considered too toxic to be inhabitable.

Much of America is toxic and devastated and unlivable.  It was contaminated by Donald Trump.  There are personalities that cast a blight on humanity that leaves it sere and barren.  That is the case with Trump.  His term as president gravely reduced the expectations of humanity.  Rather than contemplate how good humankind can be, we've been forced to confront how wretched it often actually is.  Although Trump has departed from the White House, the intellectual and moral desolation he leaves behind lingers.  Half of America chooses Trump's desolation over a nation devoted to the better angels of our natures.  

Although an American majority made a choice for a more beneficent leader in Joe Biden, a significant number prefers Trump.  And that number shapes the political landscape.  The image of America today is captured in the video of Marjory Taylor Greene following behind a victim of the Parkland school shooting, David Hogg, insulting and abusing him.  That is an image of how vile and malevolent America has become.

Bad things happen in America.  But rather than denounce them and take measures to prevent them, people like Marjory Taylor Greene take pride in the them and celebrate them.  It is the equivalent of sending up a cheer when Nazis  shoved Jewish babies into gas ovens.  

America has become a moral Chernobyl.