Critics maintain that the Colorado Supreme Court decision that bars Trump from the ballot is antidemocratic. They are right, but merely stating that the decision is wrong because it is antidemocratic overlooks the fact that many provisions in our Constitution are antidemocratic. Take the Senate, for example. Every state gets two Senators no matter what the state’s population. States that contain far less than a majority of the people have the majority of the Senators. This is not democratic. The Constitution limits a president to two terms. This is not democratic. I don’t know if Colorado’s decision is correct, but it is not wrong because it is antidemocratic. The court was interpreting a constitutional provision that is inherently antidemocratic because it prohibits certain people from holding office. Its enforcement was meant to be antidemocratic. Of course, ironies abound when Trump supporters label the decision wrong because it is antidemocratic. Trump without proof, of course, maintained that Obama could not be president because Barack was not a natural-born citizen as the Constitution requires. Obama was a natural-born citizen, of course, but the provision remains antidemocratic. And, of course, Trump was not democratically elected as president. He did not get the votes of a majority of the People. He became president because he got the majority of the antidemocratic electoral college. It is also ironic that Trump supporters mock the Colorado decision by invoking the mantra “Let the people decide” when many of them refused to accept what the people decided in 2020.

The “misery index”—the sum of the unemployment and inflation rates—that soared under President Trump has dropped precipitously since Trump was dumped, but it is still not as low as it was under President Obama.

After criticisms of his remarks about immigrants polluting our national “blood,” Trump responded by saying that he had not read Mein Kampf. Trump frequently does not tell the truth, but when he says that he has not read something, the odds are overwhelming that this time he is not lying.

Homelessness, which jumped under President Trump, has not returned to pre-Trump levels.

Trump’s definition of the holiday spirit is different from that of the rest of us. On December 24, Trump posted on social media that special counsel Jack Smith is a misfit and a thug. Trump wished that various people would “rot in hell.” I wonder if he was sacrilegious enough to do this from a pew during a Christmas Eve service.

Deaths per capita skyrocketed when Trump was in office. It has fallen while Biden has been President.