My only wish for the 2020 election was that it not turn out to be anything like the disaster that was 2016. Yet as we head into the Democratic National Convention, we’ve already seen almost everything that made our last presidential cycle a nightmare — and worse.

There are the ceaseless Russian attacks on democracy on behalf of President Donald Trump. But this time, instead of WikiLeaks, the disinformation is being laundered into our political system through House and Senate Republicans. 

There is Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns. But now the Supreme Court has made sure taxpayers will not see these documents until after the election. That's even after Trump has spent hundreds of millions in public funds and about one-fourth of his presidency so far acting as Ronald McDonald with a putter, hawking his own businesses while a running a Washington, D.C. hotel that’s more like a vacuum sucking up cash from supplicants and favor seekers.