Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker yesterday. When discussing Trump’s campaign and his chances of winning another term in the White House, Graham said “His policies are good for America. If you have a policy debate for president, he wins.”
Graham further stated that Kamala Harris is the most liberal candidate to be nominated in the history of the United States.
To his first claim that Trump’s policies are good for America, I just want to know what he’s been smoking! Trump proudly claims he was responsible for the overturn of Roe v Wade. The Dobbs decision is the first decision I can remember where the Supreme Court took away rights that Americans had previously been given. We went back 50 years!
The thing that gets me is the notion that Democrats advocate for women to get abortions, even “post-birth abortions”! What the hell is a “post-birth abortion”? Is there such a thing? I don’t think so.
But more importantly, Democrats do NOT advocate for women to get abortions. Show me one ad where the Democratic party urges women to get abortions! You can’t – because they don’t exist.
Rather, the Democratic party advocates for “choice”. If a women wants or needs an abortion, it is no one else’s business. For a party that supposedly advocates for smaller government with no interference in personal business (the GOP in case you missed it), the Republicans sure do want to be in the doctor’s exam room with a woman! Makes no sense!
And yes, I do believe “if you don’t have a uterus, you don’t get to legislate mine”!
But I stray from the gist of this post. Trump’s policies are, for the most part, stated in general terms only. For example, in the GOP 2024 Platform document, Trump advocates tariffs on all foreign made goods as a way to promote “buy American”. This is particularly true of goods made in and imported from China. However, the document does not detail how much the tariffs will be. It does make a broad statement that says, in effect, as the tariffs go up taxes will go down. It does not mention how the tariffs will affect consumers.
I can tell you how. Obviously, if the foreign manufacturer has to pay tariffs to get their goods into our market, the consumer price of the goods will go up. It makes sense to lower taxes if you’re going to charge us more for the goods we rely on daily! I don’t see this as a good thing. I think, in the long run, consumers will pay more than they do for taxes if this is passed.
Another policy stated in the Platform document is regarding taxes. The GOP proposes to make the Trump tax cuts from 2017 permanent! In campaign speeches, Trump has actually stated he wanted to lower the corporate tax even further – from 21% to 15%! I’m sorry – the 2017 tax cuts didn’t save me anything. I paid the same, if not very slightly higher – and I’m not even close to wealthy!
And don’t even get me started on Trump’s climate policies! He believes climate change is a hoax made up by scientists!
He wants to “drill, baby, drill”! Environment be damned! He wants the US to be #1 in oil production “again”. The problem here is that we’re already #1. Here’s the list of top 10 oil producing countries for calendar year 2023:
| North America | 13,264,000 | |
| Europe/Asia | 10,126,000 | |
| Asia | 8,950,000 | |
| North America | 4,990,000 | |
| Asia | 4,375,000 | |
| Asia | 4,172,000 | |
| Asia | 4,084,000 | |
| South America | 3,585,000 | |
| Asia | 3,300,000 | |
| Asia | 2,644,000 | |
| World Total | 82,922,000 | |
In addition to being top 5 in oil production, the United States is also top 5 in oil exports, natural gas production and natural gas exports.
By the way, from what I saw in his first administration, he’s not too keen on science, in general! Remember how he proposed drinking bleach to cure COVID?!? He denigrated Dr. Anthony Fauci, who dedicated his entire career to protecting people from infectious diseases. [The GOP is still going after Dr. Fauci! Shame on them!]
So, no, I do not agree that Trump’s policies are good for America!
As noted, Graham also stated that VP Harris is the most liberal candidate in American history. Really? What about our Founding Fathers?
I’m not sure, but wasn’t their thinking fairly “liberal” for their day? How many democracies were in existence at the time? How many countries believed in government for and by the people?
Color me stupid, but I think the Founding Fathers could have been considered liberal. Very liberal, in fact. The form of government they proposed was considered folly by many – the “American experiment”, I think it was called. Guess what? The experiment continues and will continue into the future as long as people like Trump are kept OUT of power!
Trump wants to end the “experiment” – he wants to be the American Putin. He wants power for power’s sake – and to stay out of jail!
No, I don’t think VP Harris is the most liberal candidate in our history. She is, however, the most liberal in modern times. We need liberalism and progressiveness to move into the future.
Senator Graham – WE’RE NOT GOING BACK!
In My Humble Opinion 