It's hard to explain bad behaviour

Distressing. Unlike a lot of people I was not smiling when Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. After all he is an overweight, older man and definitely in a high risk group. He could have been seriously sick. Interestingly, unlike most Americans, he gets free health care so he was looked after. But Trump, who was born with a silver spoon, feels entitled. He put others at risk by having an entourage join him in a helicopter trip to the hospital. More than a dozen other people in the president's circle at the White House have tested positive. When Trump got back from the hospital on Monday, he posed for a photo op without a face mask and then walked right back into the White House. He may feel better, but doctors say he is still spewing virus germs. Why the hell does a person act like that? Who puts up with that bad behaviour?

Americans do.

Also, pollsters are finding that a huge percentage of his supporters still believe in Trump and that he is doing and saying the right things. People are baffled at that. When any right-thinking person would shake their head, so many others are willing to overlook his lying, his mental illness and his bizarre behaviour. Some experts have suggested that Americans are just afraid to speak out against bullies.

I am not surprised. As a student of history, I can think back to the days of the late 1930s when most Americans were not willing to speak out against Adolph Hitler and the Nazi movement in Germany. In fact, a lot of Americans supported him. It wasn't until December 1941, after the attack on Pearl Habour that America finally caught up with the rest of the world and did the right thing.