Why Would Anyone Vote Trump Back In?

Created
Wed, 04/09/2024 - 03:30
Updated
Wed, 04/09/2024 - 03:30
Aside from the obvious, his actual performance was just terrible. Here a just a couple of data points I ran across this morning: I guess when people say they liked his policies, they meant his policies to deny people health insurance. How about this one? Or how about Trump’s claim that his tax cuts were the largest in history. (“nobody’s ever seen anything like it!”) How about Trump’s new crusade against Joe Biden in which he claims that nobody died on his watch? He lied, of course: 65 military personnel died in war zones during Trump’s administration. It’s common for some gold star families to blame the administration in charge for the deaths of their loved ones. Weirdly, since Benghazi it only seems to be right wing gold star families blaming Democrats. I didn’t see much of this during Trump’s tenure. Maybe all the families of the fallen were Trump fans? Or, more likely, the non-Trump fan families weren’t interested in becoming part of a political campaign. Bill Sher at the Washington Monthly has more on this: Trump is betting that he can make inroads on the anti-war left, with the help of Kennedy and Gabbard, by portraying himself a peacemaker battling warmongers Biden and Harris. Evidence for that charge is also scant. If Biden and Harris have so deeply embroiled America in endless war, how is it that fewer American soldiers have died in combat during their administration than in Trump’s? How is it that fewer soldiers have died…