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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (204324)	7/6/2021 8:24:29 AM
From: puborectalis	5 Recommendations Recommended By bentway CentralParkRanger combjelly S. maltophilia Sam Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362612

But how much credit should Biden get for job growth in 2021? Not all of it, certainly, but quite a lot. The American Rescue Plan, which greatly increased the purchasing power of American consumers, has surely been an important driver of growth. Even more important, however, has been the rapid rise in vaccination rates, which has led to a plunge in the infection and death rates. Some of us predicted long ago that the U.S. would experience a rapid, “V-shaped” recovery once the pandemic subsided and the economy could reopen; well, the success of the vaccination drive has brought us to that moment. And political leadership has had a lot to do with rapid vaccination. Yes, the vaccines themselves were developed before Biden took office, and the Trump administration had ordered millions of doses. But the Biden administration took much stronger steps than its predecessor had to coordinate vaccine distribution and get shots into arms. More generally, anyone who doubts the importance of political leadership in progress against Covid-19 should look at the differences in vaccination rates across states, which have a stunning correlation with partisanship: States that voted for Biden have been much more successful than Trump states in getting their residents vaccinated. So yes, we are having another morning in America, and Biden deserves more credit for his good morning than Reagan ever did for his.

To: i-node who wrote (204324)	7/6/2021 8:27:12 AM
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6 Months Later, Republicans Have A New Jan. 6 Message: Insurrection? What Insurrection? Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy to remain in power, but his party is working to make America forget all about that riot at the U.S. Capitol.

To: i-node who wrote (204324)	7/6/2021 9:24:04 AM
From: epicure	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362612

Hey, moron, I'd never say there are no racists in the North. That's your straw man. You are a racist- and there can also be racists in the North. But hey, I'm glad there's at least one democrat that gets your Trump humpin' heart to go pitter patter. You should listen to him about other things as well- "It's pervasive. The "other" still works. I was reading this new book, a Hitler biography [ Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939], by Volker Ullrich. Boy it's good. But [Hitler's] opening speeches when he was playing clubs—he'd play the clubs, then bigger rooms, then outdoors—when he started, he was playing to 40, 50 people and they said in his speeches he would attack the Jews right off. He said, "I'm going to clean out the pig sty," and he kept saying that things were worse than they were. In 1923, it was hard to do, but whenever he got out of jail and stuff, he was still doing the same thing. And those tenets to attack the other, blame everything on them— immigrants in Trump's case—it's the same pattern. I just wonder if Bannon as a school boy theorized that it could be effective." "It seems as though much of Trump's impetus is rolling back Obama's legacy, and I don't understand why he has such an obsession with it. Because everything he does, it's like it's designed to really piss off liberals in New York City. Cutting the money for teenage sex education and Planned Parenthood and stuff, it's entirely reactive, I think. It's generated by his hate for the people who maybe didn't accept him. Or he just hates. I heard him say he hated documentaries. Well, that's because... there it is! They're, reportedly at least, the truth." "To my younger self the idea of Donald Trump being president would be shocking. I have been railing against people like him forever. A song like Rednecks, it sort of works now, mentioning all those ghettoes, but it isn’t as true that the north assumes an attitude of moral superiority. Everyone knows that it is bad everywhere. Things are a little better, I think, than they were. But not by much. We are taking backwards steps. No funding for public television? Such an odd sort of thing to do. And they will go backwards on civil rights. That is terrible. We thought we’d won those battles."