A MAGA fan said (among his shots at liberal emailers) that Obama has caused all our problems and Biden is corrupt, yet Trump has done no wrong and is the answer. He said name one bad Trump policy. As an independent, here are a few observations that I shared with him and the group.
– under Obama, there were 91 months of consecutive GDP growth (3rd longest ever), six straight years of 2 + million per annum job growth and a more than doubled stock market after inheriting an economy in a housing recession from Bush; the GDP growth continued for awhile under Trump;
– under Obama, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was implemented which works well and the ACA was passed which is working pretty well now;
– under Trump he passed a tax law that increased the debt by about $2 trillion that gave us a sugar rush for about a year then the economy fell back before the pandemic took us into recession;
– under Trump (and continued by Biden unfortunately), he introduced tariffs which never work as consumers are the ones who are punished (by the way, Trump lied to Americans about twenty times that the Chinese paid for the tariffs each time he was corrected by economists);
– under Trump, climate change research was removed from US government websites, climate scientists were reassigned and we left the Paris Climate Change Accord (Biden fortunately got us back in).
Then there is all of Trump’s other stuff – bogus election fraud claims, causing an insurrection, election meddling, mishandling of classified information, pandemic mishandling and his autocratic bent. There are reasons why a group of 154 historians of all political stripes voted Trump the worst president in US history. Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt agrees as do I. Biden is not perfect, but there is a clear light of day difference between him and the low ranking Trump.
That is what this former Republican of 25 + years thinks.
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