Andrew Bates: Trump Killed Our Economy In Just 100 Days. Democrats Must Act Now

Are you amended disconnected now than you were 100 days ago? My 401(k) judge arsenic hellhole isn’t. 

On January 20, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris near Donald Trump an system that was outmatching each competitor. In October, The Economist magazine called America’s system "the envy of nan world," praising america for leaving "other rich | countries successful nan dust." 

But America is now on track to person nan lowest economical maturation and nan highest ostentation of immoderate starring nation.

In January, Trump guaranteed, "we will move the system around very quickly," "the United States is going to return disconnected for illustration a rocket ship," and "inflation" would fall. He besides claimed he’d guidelines up to a able constitution that was taking advantage of middle-class families.

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The only committedness he kept from those pre-inauguration pledges was to "turn nan system astir very quickly" -- successful nan worst way. Trump’s "rocket ship" exploded astatine takeoff. And nan only Americans spared from his debris are crony capitalists who are efficaciously paying him bribes for exemptions from an schedule that is devastating consumers and businesses.

It’s been 100 consecutive days of breaking his word. 

At nan Republican National Convention, Trump said, "I make this promise to nan awesome group of America. I will extremity nan devastating ostentation situation immediately" and "drive down prices."

Democrats person an opportunity to beryllium to nan American group that we are listening to them; that their top privilege -- nan economical occurrence of their families -- is also our top priority. 

But we’re each paying higher prices because of nan biggest middle-class taxation hike successful modern history -- Trump’s tariffs. By definition, a tariff is simply a regressive taxation that disproportionately hurts nan non-wealthy. And Trump admits nan gross nan authorities makes from his tariffs will beryllium redistributed to chap billionaires done nan taxation scheme legislature Republicans are rushing to pass. 

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Trump’s tariff taxes are besides sidesplitting nan manufacturing jobs he claimed they would protect - at Mack Truck factories in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, at auto plants successful Michigan and Indiana, and elsewhere. It’s nary astonishment that a majority of American manufacturing workers reason Trump’s tariffs. At nan aforesaid time, Trump is knifing nan policies that actually had been revitalizing American manufacturing, for illustration Biden’s bipartisan China competitiveness rule and nan Inflation Reduction Act.  

Trump’s surgery promises and self-inflicted economical losses don’t extremity there. He and legislature Republicans are plotting Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts. Trump fto nan richest man successful nan world cut Social Security benefits. Trump’s besides slashing nan investments that are nan lifeblood of our technological and aesculapian invention edges. All of this is to make room for nan taxation cuts for nan rich | that his tariff taxes finance.  

And moreover though nan norm of law, American courts, and nan independency of nan Federal Reserve are captious to keeping nan United States arsenic nan apical system successful nan world, Trump is eroding each of those pillars. He’s moreover raging against judges and different leaders he himself nominated, including Supreme Court justices, rule enforcement officials, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.    

Taken together, Trump is weakening our system truthful profoundly that he’s setting-off nan deadliest exodus of finance distant from America since nan 1940s. The dollar’s position arsenic nan world’s reserve rate -- an anchor of our economical spot that China aliases Russia would virtually termination for -- is successful situation and slipping away. 

But while astir of nan state is suffering from this nosedive, Trump and his family are benefitting. They are exploiting their elite backstage clubs and businesses to waste information from his economical train wreck -- for illustration immunity from his tariff taxes. 

This weekend, arsenic polls from NBC News, The Washington Post, ABC News, the Associated Press, and much each backed up Fox’s ain polling about nan unpopularity of Trump’s economical record, news collapsed that his son, Donald Trump Jr. is starting an exclusive caller D.C. nine virtually called "Executive Branch."

Politico reports that this nine for nan "ultra-rich" will "cater to nan business and tech moguls who are looking to nurture their relationships pinch nan Trump administration." Membership costs $500,000. Days before, Trump himself announced that nan apical owners of his $TRUMP meme coin would beryllium rewarded pinch a backstage meal astatine his ain D.C. nine -- generating an estimated $100 million for himself. 

The Trump Crime Family is practically charging businesses for "protection" from itself. 

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President Trump is double-crossing our nation, quickly draining nan American Dream that each different procreation sacrificed to make possible. Which intends Democrats person an opportunity to beryllium to nan American group that we are listening to them; that their top privilege -- nan economical occurrence of their families -- is also our top priority. 

We’ll do that by opposing Trump’s price-raising middle-class taxation hike that costs use for nan rich. And by fighting to make nan American Dream affordable -- lowering costs for illustration health care, kid care, and elder attraction by having billionaires and rich | typical interests salary their adjacent stock successful taxes. 

We’ll get Americans together pinch a shared nationalist ngo to make our system stronger than ever by empowering our mediate people and ensuring nan industries of nan early are falling complete themselves to put and build successful America -- not moving away, for illustration Trump has them doing. 

That’s nan shake-up we request and deserve. 

Democrats will besides admit that nan measurement we pass -- and especially, nan measurement you make group consciousness -- is conscionable arsenic important arsenic what we person to say. 

That intends going everywhere, some online and geographically, crossed nan country. It intends being unfastened astir who we are connected a individual level and proudly owning that nan values we’re advocating for are successful statement pinch nan champion traditions of American culture. 

Some Democrats -- not most, but immoderate -- person mistakenly spent much clip tearing America down than lifting it up, and alienating immense swaths of our state pinch divisive, counter-cultural elitism -- demeaning group of religion aliases moreover antheral voters arsenic a whole. But that is not who we are. 

There is thing much American than pushing for an economy and nine that provides opportunity and respect for everyone who useful difficult and plays by nan rules. Just for illustration there’s thing much American than ensuring that elected leaders are taxable to nan norm of rule and held accountable erstwhile they break our rights.

After getting elected based connected mendacious promises, Trump is leeching wealthiness from nan mediate class. He’s besides breaking nan rule to bargain our freedoms, for illustration nan correct to a fair trial or to disagree with our government. 

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Speaking of faith, his behaviour reminds maine of thing I learned growing up successful nan Moravian Church successful Winston-Salem, North Carolina: "Beware of mendacious prophets, who travel to you successful sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will cognize them by their fruits."

The fruits of these 100 days are rotten. So is nan governmental early of legislature Republicans, who proceed to take Trump’s incompetence and corruption complete nan interests and values of their constituents.

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