[Vision2020] Stunned

[Ron Force]

*Biden might win on personality and comity, but his policies would strike
at the economic well-being of the country.*
What he really means is that Biden's policies might strike at the economic
well-being of wealthy newspaper publishers and the rest of the top 1% .

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:25 AM Don Coombs <wildmushroomer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Subject: Stunned
> To: <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
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> Stunned, that's me. Not because the publisher of the Spokesman Review
> endorsed Donald Trump, but because he HAS been reading his own newspaper
> and knows how wretched a president Trump has been--
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> And STILL endorses him. I'll share that endorsement with you below, but
> first I want to report that Shawn Vestal -- one of the Spokesman Review's
> true talents -- is in the paper this morning, saying "OK, don't agree with
> the publisher, but don't take it out on the newspaper." Shawn makes a good
> case, and I agree with him. Newspapers need all the help they can get these
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> Don Coombs
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> Editorial Endorsement, Spokesman Review, 10/25/2020
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>  President: Donald Trump
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> Donald Trump is a bully and a bigot. He is symptomatic of a widening
> partisan divide in the country. We recommend voting for him anyway because
> the policies that Joe Biden and his progressive supporters would impose on
> the nation would be worse.
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> The list of Trump’s offenses is long. He panders to racists and prevents
> sensible immigration reform in a nation built on immigrant labor and
> intellect. He tweets conspiracy theories. He’s cavalier about COVID-19 and
> has led poorly through the pandemic. He seeks to dismantle the Affordable
> Care Act without proposing a replacement. He denies climate change.
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> Voters knew his character in 2016 and elected him anyway. Four years
> later, the nation is still standing. Indeed, in many ways it flourished
> until the pandemic upended everything.
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> The economy and markets roared under Trump’s championship of market-based
> solutions and individualism. Unemployment among communities of color
> reached record lows. He reset trade and diplomatic relationships in
> America’s favor. He provided historically high support for traditionally
> Black colleges. He rolled back extreme environmental regulations and led
> the way for U.S. energy independence. He backed federal sentencing reform
> to address inordinately high American incarceration rates. And he’s
> committed to supporting law and order in American cities.
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> Biden might win on personality and comity, but his policies would strike
> at the economic well-being of the country. He favors massive growth in
> government and a historic increase in federal spending through green
> initiatives, free health services, free education and other ideas grounded
> in reliance on the state as savior rather than creating an environment in
> which individual liberty and hard work can thrive. Public employee unions
> would hold outsized power and demand greater spending.
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> To afford it all, Biden and a Democrat-controlled Congress would have to
> impose unprecedented tax increases or accept catastrophic deficit spending.
> Taxes and spending likely would increase under Trump, too, but the nation
> stands a better chance of moderation and reform with him in the White House
> than it does with Biden pushed left by progressives intent on reshaping
> America to fit their fantastical vision.
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> This is an election that pits a wretched human being whose policies and
> instincts for helping America thrive are generally correct against a
> doddering, doting uncle who would hand out gifts the nation can’t afford in
> order to win people’s love. Given that choice, economic policy and
> principle should prevail. Vote for Donald Trump.
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