A second Trump term: What am I missing?
In two years, President Joe Biden passed the Infrastructure and Jobs Act that has produced more than 40,000 projects across all 50 states. Signed the Chips and Science Act. Expanded health care access to a record number of Americans. Lowered the cost of drugs like insulin to seniors. Passed legislation to reduce climate change. And passed the American Rescue Plan, which has rebuilt our economy after the disastrous COVID pandemic, a recovery that has made us the envy of the world. Reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, passed a gun safety law, and helped to support and expand NATO. We’re seeing record job growth, and a declining inflation rate. Unemployment is at a 50-year low. Biden supported the strictest bipartisan border control legislation in decades, only to have it quashed by the Trump sycophants in Congress.
Meanwhile, the administration of former President Donald Trump passed an unpopular tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, which increased our national debt by record numbers. He proudly appointed three far-right justices to the Supreme Court who removed a woman’s right to healthcare autonomy which women enjoyed for almost half a century. He’s been found liable by a jury of his peers of sexual abuse, been impeached twice, faces four indictments on 91 charges including illegal retention of classified documents and attempting to overturn a free and fair election. He’s said he’d be a dictator on day one, and has promised to withdraw any further funding for Ukraine’s valiant fight against Putin, a fight which has greatly weakened the Russian military, at no cost to American lives.
I’m still struggling to find an argument for a second Trump administration.