It’s okay to say it! Call it what it was it was in a word: TRAUMATIZING!
And that’s just a descriptor of people who weren’t even on the receiving end of the trauma, like the marginalized communities that were specifically targeted. I cannot imagine how the communities that were targeted can move into the future.
This entire country was traumatized by him and his cronies, and then we lost hundreds of thousands of people to the plague, while they did it. And we have no idea how that trauma is going to manifest itself in the future.