The recent government shutdown, longest in our history, is now fading into memory, but no one should forget which party refused to negotiate while applying political pressure by taking food from millions of Americans’ mouths and refusing to pay air traffic controllers, so Americans encountered chaos at the nation’s airports.

A refusal to fund SNAP benefits, despite court orders, leaving 42 million Americans hungry; a desire to get unhoused people out of sight and out of mind; a likely 53% income tax increase for people who make $15,000 or less; a willy-nilly tariff policy that raises prices for all American consumers, costing the average household thousands a year — just for starters, as U.S. trading partners organize to cut America out of the equation as much as possible.

I’m old enough

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