Yes, four-star general of the army Colin Powell can talk! I did not know this! And, as it turns out, he’s pretty good at it!, blasting Donald Trump for “drifting away from the Constitution,” “lying all the time”, demonizing immigrants, and grotesquely exploiting the death of George Floyd in a typically Trumpian orgy of self-congratulation.
The thing is, General, all of this was blindingly obvious a good four years ago, when you and all your Park Avenue Republican friends sat on your fine banquettes at the Four Seasons and let shit happen. You thought you could sit on your well-cushioned butts and let a short, pudgy, unprepossessing 69-year-old woman in a cheap pantsuit save America—and you!—from its worst domestic crisis since the Great Depression. And now four years later you’re wondering why you have shit all over your faces and no one to clean it off.
Afterwords
As Jennifer Rubin points out, Colin Powell is waaaaay ahead of a still pre-verbal Condoleezza Rice, who appears likely to go silent to the grave. Well, she has much to be silent about.
