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In 2016, Donald Trump promised to do an inspirational number of things if we elected him.
Trump promised he would: Eliminate the $19 trillion national debt within eight years, cut the budget by 20%, repeal and replace Obamacare, lower drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies, build a wall — that Mexico would finance! — along the southern border, invest in infrastructure, triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, raise the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour, and “be so presidential, you’re going to be bored.”
As to those promises, Trump went 0 for the bunch of ’em.
Now, Trump tells us that if Kamala Harris wins the election, the United States will go to hell in a handbasket: Harris doesn’t know what she’s doing! Her father was a communist! We’re heading to World War III! If Harris wins the election, there will be a 1929-style depression.
Yeah, yeah.
Bigly. The likes of which we’ve never seen before. Many people are saying this.
Take just a moment to remember the things that Trump told us would happen if Joe Biden won the election in 2020:
If Biden won, the economy was going to sink into an unprecedented recession.
If Biden won, the suburbs would be destroyed.
If Biden won, police departments would be defunded.
If Biden won, there’d be an energy crisis for seniors.
If Biden won, your guns would be confiscated.
If Biden won, your religious freedoms would be assailed.
If Biden won, there’d be violence in the cities.
If Biden won, the stock market would crash.
Of course, Trump was saying these things in 2016 and 2020 only because he was in elections, and you expect a candidate to say crazy things during election season.
But Trump is again in an election season, and he’s again saying crazy things.
Every time Trump says that the country can’t survive four years of Harris, think about the clarity of Trump’s crystal ball when he was making predictions in the past.
Mark Herrmann spent 17 years as a partner at a leading international law firm and is now deputy general counsel at a large international company. He is the author of The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law and Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy (affiliate links). You can reach him by email at [email protected].
