[Vision2020] Stunned

[Roger Hayes]

I agree, newspapers can use all the help they can get. However, the Cowels
family worries that Biden will cut the tax breaks and special favors to the
wealthy they got under Trump. Maybe that's some of the reason newspapers
are in trouble. They are called the Fourth Pillar of Democracy for a
reason.
The Spokesman publisher lists all the reasons Trump has been horrible for
our country, then goes on to list a bunch of talking points from a Trump
rally. Some half true, some downright falsities.
And just to clarify, economic success, particularly Wall Street success, is
not equal to the importance of maintaining our democracy. I guess the
editor conveniently forgot that.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:39 AM Ron Force <ronforce at gmail.com> wrote:

> *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% .
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> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:25 AM Don Coombs <wildmushroomer at gmail.com>
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>> 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
>> days.
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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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