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Watching President Biden’s farewell final week, I couldn’t assist however be impressed with how, in simply 4 years, the president not solely delivered on his 2020 marketing campaign guarantees however spectacularly went past them, making a report of 16.6 million new jobs and reducing the racial wealth hole to its lowest level in 20 years.
He’s raised wages and reduce the price of prescribed drugs. He invested almost $600 billion in rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, helped create 21 million new small companies, protected over 1.2 million Individuals from lead of their ingesting water and supplied free or discounted high-speed web service to greater than 23 million low-income households.
Because of President Biden’s management, extra Individuals have medical health insurance than ever earlier than, we handed the primary main gun security regulation in almost 30 years and each unemployment and violent crime are at a 50-year low.
He additionally helped lead our nation out of the worst pandemic since 1918 and the worst financial disaster because the Nice Despair…however who’s counting?
Donald Trump, then again, has promised to repeal a lot of that progress.
The place President Biden has led the way in which on clear vitality and preventing local weather change, Trump has pledged to eradicate our work to chop emissions and launch a brand new period of drilling and fracking throughout America.
The place President Biden championed equality by investing in minority-owned companies, preventing housing discrimination, rebuilding deprived communities and rooting out systemic racism in our justice system, Trump has vowed to instantly finish our federal authorities’s dedication to range, equality and inclusion.
The place President Biden labored for all Individuals, Trump promised to finish birthright citizenship. The place President Biden labored to extend funding for training, Trump vowed to chop federal funding to varsities that educate American historical past that isn’t whitewashed. The place President Biden led the combat towards terrorists, Trump has promised to pardon the January 6 insurrectionists.
On prime of all that, Donald Trump and the MAGA GOP made a sequence of guarantees which can be merely past the facility of a president to ship upon together with pledges to:
- Considerably decrease the value of groceries.
- Deliver fuel costs to underneath $2.00 per gallon.
- Lower the price of automobile insurance coverage in half.
- Persuade landlords to scale back lease throughout the nation.
- Deliver down the value of a single-family dwelling.
- Guarantee the common household qualifies for an rate of interest beneath 3%.
- Remove taxes on Social Safety.
- Remove taxes on suggestions.
- Remove taxes on extra time.
- Finish the warfare in Ukraine in January.
- Finish the continued battle in Israel.
- Decrease taxes for all households making underneath $200,000 per 12 months.
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In fact, Trump is aware of he can’t ship on these. That’s why he’s already making an attempt as laborious as he can to stroll them again together with his signature marketing campaign promise to decrease grocery costs. However that’s not an actual shock. In spite of everything, the GOP has a protracted historical past of overpromising and underdelivering. That’s one of many most important causes Trump misplaced in 2020.
To be able to win the election, Donald Trump wrote a test to the American individuals and that test is coming due. The clock begins ticking on January twentieth.
As Democrats, that’s the place we are available.
You see, everyone knows that Trump and the MAGA GOP will do something to distort historical past and dodge duty for his or her failed management. They’ve been doing it for so long as any of us can keep in mind. Our job is to face as much as do what we will to guard the American individuals from disastrous insurance policies like placing Medicare, Medicaid and Social Safety on the chopping block. However we even have to carry them accountable for making outlandish guarantees they haven’t any intention of residing as much as.
Once they attempt to hem and haw about legislative and bureaucratic resistance, we have now to level out that they’ve nobody accountable however themselves. What number of occasions did we hear MAGA members of Congress attempt to blame Democrats once they couldn’t get a Republican majority to vote for a Republican Speaker of the Home? Prepare to observe that form of dysfunction on steroids and, once they attempt to roll out the outdated scapegoats of “Massive Authorities” or the “Washington Swamp,” it’s as much as us to inform the reality.
Republicans now management the Home, the Senate, the White Home and the Supreme Courtroom. They ARE the federal government. They ARE the swamp they need to drain. They’re those in energy and, on the finish of the day, the buck stops with them for higher or worse. We have now to remind them of that. We have now to remind the individuals. We have now to carry the MAGA machine accountable.
We have now to remind Donald Trump that he’s on the clock for the American individuals…and the clock is ticking.
Donald Trump could make up all of the empty excuses he needs. This isn’t a sport.
Antjuan Seawright is a Democratic political strategist, founder and CEO of Blueprint Technique LLC and a senior visiting fellow at Third Method. Observe him on X, previously generally known as Twitter @antjuansea.
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