Bong-Man, so true!
But,
There's also Russia's vast, many month's-long, and ongoing hack of our government's network, [[and Microsoft's, and our allies', many more, and we'll never know them all). The more we learn the more highly sensitive information we realize they stole, and continue to steal.
I'd count their theft of the NSA's most sophisticated cyberdefense tools as a disaster worthy of a "crisis" too.
As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm
Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/u...overnment.html
Russia’s SolarWinds hackers likely burrowed deep
https://www.axios.com/russia-solarwi...c124d5f3c.html
More questions than answers as SolarWinds breach probe expands
While the magnitude of the cyber-attack stuns experts, most agree that Russia was the instigator
https://www.securityinfowatch.com/cybersecurity/article/21206223/more-questions-than-answers-as-solarwinds-breach-probe-expands
And what about the shame we now face-- our once [[deservedly) proud nation? Our loss of influence. Our broken alliances. The malevolent dictators he enabled?
To say nothing of all the cretins he encouraged to crawl out from under their rocks-- they were quieting away gritting their teeth as they died. And all the new ones he's inspired. He did way more than give them voice from the world's highest stage.
The next Trump, if there is one [[let's make sure there isn't!), would almost certainly be more capable, thus much worse. Image someone who espoused the same ideology, but wasn't an idiot.