Subject: Re: NYT: Biden Border Disaster
"Friend of mine voted for Trump"
"If Democrats don't get a handle on immigration..."

One of my friends was adamant in his opinion that the most important thing the Dems
had to do was get tough on the border messaging. He knew that Obama had a record of actually turning back more people than Trump.1 did. But their messaging about it
was abysmally poor. But my friend did not vote for Trump. He recognized that Trump
was phony, made from TV blowhard that would do a lot of damage to America.

How did your friend feel about Trump's handling of Covid ?
Trump's ham-fisted bungling of that crisis didn't lead your friend to at least
have some doubts about Trump's capability to lead the Country ?

How did your friend feel about the inflation that ramped up after Covid ?
Yes, Biden overdid the financial aid. But hindsight is 100%, and there was
real fear that the Country could slip into a Depression. Does your friend hold
Trump to any level of responsibility for the fallout of Trump's Covid handling ?
Trump owns equal blame for the inflation that hit under Biden, supply chains and
economic activity froze up under Trump. These red flags were pre Trump2, and his
vaunted Tariff policy, which are taking inflation up a notch or 2.

So your friend got his wish. Trump has trampled all over the Constitution, and Trump
threatens to send America into an autocracy. How does your friend feel about
those repercussions for electing Trump ? Oh well, it doesn't matter, your friend
helped launch us down this road, to late to change that.