It continues to amaze me that a lot of people would like to see Donald Trump back in the White House.
The man’s plan seems to be that if he repeats the same lies often enough, people will believe him.
Here is an example that you can check for yourself.
Trump has long held that his tariffs on Chinese goods are being paid by the Chinese. Any businessman who imports goods from China can tell you who pays those import taxes: The company importing the goods pays the import taxes. The importer then passes those taxes on to us by increasing the purchase price. I don’t know how much that adds to inflation, but it does not help. So while our government does gain tax revenue, we Americans are providing it, not the Chinese.
You may remember his claim that Mexico was going to pay for the border wall. How did that work out? Listen to one of Trump’s rallies. His focus is on coming up with demeaning nicknames for his opponents, scaring folks about the troubles at our southern border (after Trump personally worked to prevent the passage of a bipartisan solution), and saying how he was the greatest president ever.
Vladimir Putin must agree with that last point, since he has consistently supported Trump.
Trump claims the last election was stolen. That is also not true, but only because Trump’s attempts to steal the election all failed.
His attack on our Capitol did not stop the certification of the vote, his fake electors were caught and the many, many lawsuits were dismissed, some by judges Trump appointed.
And now we are bombarded by ads for other Republicans saying that we should vote for them because they are on Trump’s side? Have we all lost our collective sanity? I would say “Wake up and smell the coffee,” but the Republicans have tried to make being “woke” a bad thing.
We must fight for our freedom at the ballot box while it still matters.
— Mark Beaudin
Anchorage
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