Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan asked voters, “are you better off now than you were four years ago?” What can be said to that question today?
Cronyism and gross incompetence have America leading in COVID-19 infections and deaths.
U.S. passports are now an active barrier to travel in Europe or to other developed countries worldwide.
The U.S. economy has contracted faster and more deeply than at any time since the Great Depression.
The current administration lurches between failures. The CDC and USPS are gutted from within, national commerce and confidence both wounded.
Reagan asked how easy it was to go to the store four years ago, about unemployment, whether America was as respected throughout the world as it was. Do you feel greater security? Are we as strong? Is “this course that we’ve been on for the last four years what you would like to see us follow for the next four?”
Great nations can collapse into violent corruption, as can smaller ones: Consider the USSR, the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda. Those are the sort of holes some are digging. It can happen here, and we must do well with every moment between now, Nov. 3, and Jan. 20.
