Rudy Giuliani's downfall is symbolic for American democracy
Rudy Giuliani, once known as "America's Mayor," has had quite the downfall. This week, he released a commercial promoting his line of coffee. It comes as he is in the middle of bankruptcy, and pleading not guilty to trying to overturn the 2020 election in Arizona. His downfall is symbolic for American democracy. At the turn of the millennium, then-President Clinton spoke of hope for a new generation of Americans. Instead, America democracy is being strangled by indifference and denialism:
Steve, way to take down the corrupt Giuliani and Cruz! When Clinton was talking about a rising sun for our youth, my heart sunk. Do these MAGA leaders have children and grandchildren? Do they care if they go to war in Europe? They don't. They ONLY want power and money. They are Fascists. The sunrise for our youth has been corrupted by MAGA and foreign interference. It brings me to tears. I hope to keep hearing, loud and clear, more about the foreign influences that want to wreck Democracy. Keep hitting hard, Steve. We need WARNINGS to wake people up. Thank you!
Over twenty years ago, I met Giuliani. I didn’t come away from the meeting liking or disliking him. I never met him again. As the years passed, I noted an excessively greedy man; then a man with a drinking problem; and then a man who willfully and cartoonishly tied himself to a buffoon and behaved like a clown and still does. Alcohol will do that to a person, but the seeds were planted long ago.