NEWS
DEMOCRATS HAVE A CHANCE (AND THE DUTY)
TO RECLAIM AMERICA’S PAST GREATNESS By Joel McNally
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hen Joe Biden announced his presidential candidacy, no one knew when he accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee a year later it would no longer be safe for 50,000 people to gather anywhere in Donald Trump’s America.
Trump’s failure to organize a national strategy to protect Americans in an international pandemic left the U.S. with the highest death toll in the world, still rising toward 150,000 fatalities even before an expected second wave surge in the fall. Trump’s public health disaster led directly to economic disaster, wiping out seven straight years of economic
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growth under President Barack Obama and Biden, and three more under Trump. The successful U.S. economy crashed, leaving tens of millions jobless in a plunging national depression.
presidency to benefit anyone other than himself. He simply delighted in all the new opportunities for self-aggrandizement and personal corruption to increase his own wealth.
Every American’s life has been upended in ways Trump’s supporters couldn’t have imagined when they elected an unqualified, self-obsessed TV celebrity. Trump never intended to use the
The Highest Aspirations Biden idealistically embraces the highest aspirations of America’s founders. He launched his campaign with Thomas Jefferson’s words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” “We’ve heard it so often,” Biden said, “it’s almost a cliché. But it’s who we are. We haven’t always lived up to those ideals; Jefferson himself didn’t. But we’ve never walked away from them before.”
