Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election. I was one of a handful who had predicted he would win – based on his ease of knocking off all those well-known contenders during the primary. Would I have been a supporter if I were a U.S. citizen? Not on your life.
Trump’s ego and bellicose bumbled everything he touched. His tax cut program initiated trillion-dollar deficits into the U.S. economy, being unsustainable without printing money beyond the rationale.
Racial strife primarily increased due to systemic poverty in inner cities along with-an out-of-control police force using strongarm tactics.
And then there’s the Trump Administration’s handling of COVID-19, by promoting snake oil – in this case hydroxychloroquine.
Trump, with the full backing of the Republican Party, denied climate change and pushed for unrestricted extraction and use of fossil fuels.
As is the case in so many developing nations, President Trump widely neglected U.S. infrastructure despite extravagant campaign promises. These types of failures cheapened and disgraced the U.S. presidency.
Trump assaulted democracy itself, governing more by decree in the form of executive orders, bypassing almost entirely elected representatives in the Congress.
The election of 2020 rebuilt hope for a Trump defeat. Joe Biden did that to become the 46th President of the United States of America. While Donald Trump had been among the most controversial presidents in history, Joe Biden aimed to take a committed posture to defend America’s role as a leader on the global stage. However, has America really made the right decision by choosing Joe Biden?
With regards to Trump’s reducing the number of refugees, imposing travel bans and modifying the visa program, only 22,405 refugees resettled in 2018—the lowest figure ever since the creation of the program.
Opposing Trump’s views, Joe Biden hopes to allow the ‘dreamers’ full citizenship, rejoin the Paris accord, and increase the numbers for immigration. Now thousands too many are huddling beneath the international bridge.
Biden’s announcement of 200M vaccinations in his first one hundred days was resounding. His July 1st goal fell short, however.
Now he’s in trouble since his robust mandate to increase vaccinations has infuriated the Red State governors for overusing his powers.
After months of negotiation, Democrats and a group of moderate Republicans forged a compromise, partially due to Biden’s familiarity of “crossing the aisle” allowing the Senate to approve an expansive $8.3B infrastructure bill to rebuild the nation’s aging roads and bridges, and projects to mitigate the impact of wildfires. Currently it is sitting in the House of Representatives.
As it stands now, both the passage of the $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” budget bill, the party’s cherished “For the People Act” voting rights bill, and the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate earlier this summer is going down to defeat unless the democratic moderates and progressives can agree on one vote for both or individual votes.
Biden’s presidency is in danger as his entire legislative agenda sits on the knife’s edge of total failure.
Republican governors (red states) are impeding voting means especially in poorer districts. Then the Governor of Texas made abortions illegal, spreading next to Mississippi, even threatening to overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision. Biden’s numerous challenges are like solving a puzzle without having all the pieces.
Joe Biden wanted to celebrate the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan on September 11th. Arrogantly, he believed the 20th anniversary of a day of infamy could be turned into a feel-good event —a political booster shot. The withdrawal date was moved up to Aug. 31, still Biden remained fixated on getting all the troops out before 9/11, damn the consequences.
Now the consequences are damning the president. Of those Afghans who assisted the U.S. and welcomed to the U.S., hundreds had to left behind. The rejuvenated Taliban fighters overtook the country quicker than anticipated. Biden’s doubletalk hasn’t deterred it being his fault.
Then a drone strike on ISIS target for retaliation for 13 American soldiers killed at the airport slaughtered 10 civilians (including seven children) in a tragic mistake. This added one more incident to the long dreadful list of U.S. military mistakes in Afghanistan.
More grievous than all, Donald Trump is still dominant with his voting base, key members of congress and is a definite threat to take back the tenuous mid-term election results for the Senate and the House of Representatives, leaving him in the driver’s seat for the Presidential election in 2024.
No indications yet that Joe Biden can prevent Trump’s eventual march to victory.
