'It deserves to fail': Devastating attack on current-day U.S. unleashed by renowned writer

Political commentator Elie Mystal had some scathing words for America in his latest column for The Nation.

"We had a chance to stand united against fascism, authoritarianism, racism, and bigotry, but we did not," he wrote. "We had a chance to create a better world for not just ourselves but our sisters and brothers in at least some of the communities most vulnerable to unchecked white rule, but we did not. We had a chance to pass down a better, safer, and cleaner world to our children, but we did not.

"Instead, we chose Trump, J.D. Vance, and a few white South African billionaires who know a thing or two about instituting apartheid."

Mystal, who has previously called on news consumers to dump media outlets that don't take Trump's dangers seriously, said that no one individually deserves the horror he expects a Trump presidency will unleash — but that America collectively brought it on itself.

"We, as a nation, have proven ourselves to be a fetid, violent people, and we deserve a leader who embodies the worst of us," he wrote. Trump, as he exists in our political environment, "was created from our greed, our insecurities, and our selfishness. We have summoned him, from the depths of our own bile and neediness, and he has answered. And now that he is here, we deserve our fate, because the most fundamental truth about Trump’s reelection is that Trump was right about us."

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Indeed, he argued, Trump is fundamentally a reflection of the people and the country who elected him. "He is rich, because we are rich or think we will be. He is crass because we are crass. He is self-interested because we are. He punks the media because the media are punks. He is unintelligent because we are uninformed."

As for how to "save" America from the next four years of Trump, Mystal wrote, that's the wrong question.

"A country that allows its environment to be ravaged, its children to be shot, its wealth to be hoarded, its workers to be exploited, its poor to starve, its cops to murder, and its minorities to be hunted doesn’t really deserve to be 'saved.' It deserves to fail," he concluded. "Trump is not our 'retribution.' He is our reckoning."