America likes to think of itself in superlatives, but 2017 has seen those assumed tributes turn ruinous. Instead of the “greatest and the best,” we’ve had the most destructive hurricanes to Texas, Florida and Caribbean territories that are part of the U.S.; the biggest mass shooting in the nation’s history, and the worst California wildfires ever. Adding extreme insult to injury, we also have the most dangerous president in the nation’s history—impulsive, impetuous, bigoted, narcissistic, unschooled in history and diplomacy, and eager to make perilous nuclear threats to the equally unstable North Korean regime. Where will it end?
Ruth Bailey, Lafayette
