Realistic voters anticipate the downside of politics; so, Republicans must consider an America in which Democrats control Washington. This is now a probability, because – fair or not – voters hold incumbents to account for the situation. That is today high unemployment, social isolation, and racial disaffection. Other than Chinese nukes raining on every US city, it’s hard to imagine a worse How I Feel situation (never in my 65 years).
The electoral math is simple. First, absent a strong economy, Biden will steal away Trump’s independent voters. Second, social isolation has created the general malaise that bum-rushed Carter out of office in 1980. Third, the races are openly dissatisfied with one other (check Facebook); so, soccer moms and under-30 voters will vote change. If there’s a President Biden, what does it mean?
Prior to his inauguration, Biden will kiss up to the global alliances that Trump kissed off. If it were just kissing up, so what? But don’t be naive, because the world will insist the US resumes paying for global initiatives. Biden accedes because post-Vietnam Democrats crave European approval. Bottom Line: US funds flow out and foreign-made goods flow in – plus sounds of Aquarius will welcome Air Force One around the world.
After a Democrat sweep, teacher unions will dance in public-school hallways, because Biden promised a “teacher-oriented Department of Education” with “higher salaries for educators [and an end to] the burden of their own student debt.” Say goodbye to student-oriented school districts: Biden promised “no privately funded charter school – or private charter school – would receive a penny of federal money.” Bottom Line: the Separate But Crummy education in Chicago and Detroit will continue.
Through executive orders and legislation, Democrats will restore no-growth regulations, with special emphasis on down-sizing the fossil fuel industries. With Sanders and Warren nipping at his heels, and AOC yammering on TV, Biden will have the DOJ de-fund large banks and multinationals through record fines (or face jail time). Biden will also jack up corporate tax rates from 21% to 28%. Bottom Line: four years of a super slo-mo economy.
Biden will expand Medicare by lowering the eligibility age five years and add the “public option” to Obamacare. This will cost $2 trillion, so he will raise marginal tax rates on every taxable entity (corporate and personal). Biden wants an extra $1 trillion from increased payroll taxes, and new Senate Finance chair Ron Wyden wants an extra $1.5 trillion in taxes on the “wealthy” for un-realized gains on unsold assets. Bottom Line: Biden and his peeps will heavily tax all income over $400,000 per annum.
Under Biden, the Cancel Culture will infiltrate every agency and office in Washington; thereby initiating a war on church, community and family until Republicans sweep the mid-terms. If there’s a silver lining in a Democrat sweep, it’s mad-liberal politicians will be held completely accountable for the (bad) results. Bottom Line: Dems will be stuck with a 78-year-old, gaffe-prone, white guy, as their party’s spokesman.
It’s wrong to see Trump out of context. The paradigm of change requires a bold critic from the periphery to challenge the status quo and single out powerful elites. The first wave of MAGA populism is bigger than Trump’s presidency because it prepares the GOP for a more presidential candidate, such as Nikki Haley, with evolved MAGA policies and an identity not so easily demonized. After Biden, any Republican will be favored.