No, we don't go around looking like the screamer, but there's ongoing peril in the pandemic, a distraught economy, widespread disruption in violent riots, high racial tensions, the demolition of the family, the decline of faith, the decay of norms, intellectualism gone awry and an election dangerous to talk about.
You are in real trouble if you point out, for instance, that President
She is worse than Trump, and, look, I am in trouble again because Pelosi is, after all, a hero to many, but she scares me,
given the way she plays politics with everything as she simultaneously presents herself as morally superior, outraged at anyone
saying that she does what she does. The bigger question, of course, is what happens if basement boy
We don't know for sure all that would happen, although Supreme Court packing could well occur, thereby making the court a
political plaything and just maybe a political tool. Getting rid of the
A major flaw of Trump's has been the debt, and Biden intends to hit the rich with huge tax increases still some $2 trillion
short of his spending ambitions as they put a dent in free market wealth production. Will the
The spending will include forgiveness of some student loan debt. Understand that the federal loan program was a large part of what caused tuition to go up so much in the first place and that the forgiveness will reward imprudence of the mostly better off at the expense of everyone else. Medicare for all could come into being because of Biden's public option insurance evolving sufficiently to displace other insurance because it's cheaper. The program will almost certainly be a convoluted mess costing a fortune that we don't have.
Trump's deregulation will be replaced by regulations taking away more of our freedoms and stymying the economy. The
For their own advantage,
There's more, but this is enough to scream about.
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Jay Ambrose, formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers and the editor of dailies in El Paso, Texas, and Denver, is a columnist living in Colorado.