Until a few months ago the common view was that this election would be about inflation, the economy, and immigration. Things have changed. People have wised up. It is clear that this election is essentially about one thing: Trump’s basic unfitness for office. His unfitness is obvious and disqualifying.
A reasonable person of either party could probably deal with the various issues that confront the country, but Trump is neither reasonable nor fit. This fact is increasingly being brought into focus by the hundreds of former republican officials from the Reagan administration to the former Trump administration who served in the intelligence agencies, the military, the state department, and almost every other sector of the government. They have endorsed Kamala Harris and cited Trump’s unfitness as their reason.
Trump’s speeches grow longer, more rambling, and more incoherent every day. He has the instincts of a schoolyard bully and the attention span of a small child. He is basically unhinged.
I often hear people say that they will vote for Trump because they “liked the Trump economy” and they “like his policies.” This is hard to understand. Trump’s policies included undermining important American alliances like NATO, giving free reign to autocrats like Putin and Netanyahu, demonizing various minority groups, appointing poorly qualified people to important positions, trying to undermine faith in the media, science, the government, and the courts. His trade war with China caused American farmers to lose billions of dollars… then he had to compensate those farmers with billions of dollars of taxpayer money–essentially making them welfare recipients. Thanks a lot. Tariffs are just a sales tax in disguise. Sales taxes fall hardest on the lowest income people.
When Trump ran in 2016, he made fantastic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, create millions of other jobs, build the wall to block immigration, repeal Obamacare and replace it, and to do something about America’s ailing infrastructure. He did not keep any of those promises. Even now his plan for healthcare remains, in his own words, “some concepts.” Manufacturing jobs were actually lost under Trump. Why any American would like Trump’s “policies” or long for the lost “Trump economy” is simply beyond me…
The truth is, Trump inherited a very healthy economy from President Obama. The first two years of the Trump economy were essentially the old Obama economy: Trump failed to pass any substantive changes. Then the COVID crisis struck. Trump’s mishandling of the COVID 19 crisis is the biggest, yet least investigated of his crimes against the American people. It left a huge mess for Bidden to fix. When Trump left office, unemployment was at almost 10% (a high not seen since the Great Depression). Supply chains were broken, and tens of thousands of businesses had failed. In his four years in office Biden basically fixed that mess. Biden passed a huge infrastructure bill that will create jobs for years while America’s neglected bridges and roads are updated. Unemployment is at a historic low, the stock market is at a historic high, inflation is down, gas prices are down, domestic energy production is up, the GDP is up, illegal immigration and crime are down. The American economy today is the envy of the world. Biden has also strengthened NATO and other key American alliances.
When Adolf Hitler wrote his famous book, Mein Kampf, people dismissed much of it as campaign rhetoric. In fact, as history shows, he meant almost every word of it. Trump’s version of Mein Kampf seems to be embodied in the project 2025 manifesto. It is a program for dictatorial government. He has also promised a regime of revenge and retribution, using the American military against the American people, using the DOJ and the courts to punish political enemies, and so on. He means every word of it…
America faces a lot of serious issues, especially abortion rights, civil rights, voting rights, and the basic rule of law. A reasonably fit leader could deal with these issues, but Trump is nowhere close to being fit. As countless former Trump staffers and employees have publicly testified, he is perhaps the biggest danger to democracy that America faces today. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are highly qualified, fit and experienced. If you are still undecided, I hope you will think closely about all this and vote for Harris/Walz and other democrats down the ballot.
Gilbert Schramm
Mind-Cast 
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