Sure, we remember the good times under the Trump administration . . .
We remember
  • Rationing toilet paper
  • Refrigerated trucks in hospital parking lots being used as temporary morgues
  • Tax cuts for corporations and billionaires that drove up the federal deficit (which of course you get with any Republican administration)
  • Campaign officials with deep ties to Russian propagandists that manipulated American voters via social media
  • Pandering to authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un while alienating our democratic allies
  • Praise for the racist marchers in the Charlottesville torch parade as "good people"
  • Supreme Court appointees that allowed states to outlaw abortion
  • Constant howling about rigged elections and baseless conspiracy theories which foster distrust in the mechanics of our democracy
  • Browbeating state officials to "find" votes that didn't exist
  • The US Capitol being overrun and vandalized by a violent mob
What do you remember?
Donald Trump left the White House with violent crime spiking, thousands of Americans dying each day from a disease he claimed was no worse than the common cold and having attempted a coup to remain in office despite having lost reelection. The former and would-be future president and the Republican National Committee on Monday released a schedule of convention themes that counts on Americans forgetting all that and instead waxing nostalgic for his years in office. “President Trump will Make America Great Once Again!” the RNC’s synopsis of the convention theme proclaims. The theme for July 16, “Make America Safe Once Again,” suggests that crime has been rampant under President Joe Biden. In reality, crime rates spiked to their highest levels in years under Trump in 2020 and have been decreasing each of the three years since Biden took office. “Crime surged and weddings and proms were canceled while Trump told Americans to inject bleach and threatened to ‘terminate’ the Affordable Care Act during the pandemic he mismanaged,” said Biden campaign senior spokesperson Sarafina Chitika. “The only thing Donald Trump did to make Americans’ lives better four years ago was lose to Joe Biden
Source: "GOP Convention To Count On Americans’ Collective Amnesia Of Trump's First Term" By S.V. Date - HuffPost - July 8, 2024

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