So much focus is on Trump's character, that his egregious policy proposals and statements are actually ignored.
1) Proposed abolishing the EPA, only recently backing off the proposal (Trump is the king of ill-considered policies and flip-flopping).
Trump backs off plan to eliminate EPA | Washington Examiner
2) Brags about spending $100 million on his own campaign (true????). Never mentions that just his proposal to abolish the estate tax would save his family BILLIONS (with a "B") if he's truly worth $10 billion, never even considering the millions he would save annually if he ever uses up his net operating loss carry-forwards. Of course, we don't know his tax situation because he is the only major Presidential candidate in decades to decline to release several years of tax returns. This is a major step backwards.
3) Trump tax and spending proposals would massively increase the federal deficit and the nation's debt.
4) Perhaps the most despicable aspect of Trump's campaign is his and Mike Pence's praise of Vladimir Putin, both claiming repulsively that Putin is a better leader than Obama, which is only true if you like democracy-smashing dictators who engage in acts of foreign aggression, not seen in Europe since the Nazi invasions of WWII. Putin also subverts the political processes of democracies, including the U.S. to an extent perhaps unprecedented in history, made possible by the internet. Trump and Pence, while praising Putin, criticize Obama and Clinton for not responding aggressively to Putin's aggression. Yet Trump praised Russian aggression in Syria, and never notes the crippling of the Russian economy by U.S.-led sanctions.
See posts 3, 87, 122 and other posts in this thread:
Is there any actual proof Russia is "hacking" our elections?
5) While Trump has raised several important issues, his policy solutions are either unworkable, such as forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall, or ignorant and economically catastrophic, such as imposing unilateral tariffs and therefore effectively breaking existing U.S. trade treaties. Like other U.S. politicians, he didn't propose a value-added tax, even though he identified that as an issue that hurts the U.S. in the first Presidential debate.
6) Trump, like the vast majority of Republican politicians, ignores the catastrophic consequences of climate change and actually promotes an increase in the use of fossil fuels.
7) Trump has no respect for women's reproductive rights, even once proposing that women who had an abortion should be criminally prosecuted.
The list could go on, but it depresses me to think about it.
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