Trump's policies were not "American First". They were neither family friendly, not were they good for the middle class. Trump's policies crashed the economy, and exacerbated your supply chain issues. Tearing up all of your trade agreements pre-pandemic, meant nothing was in place for trade post-pandemic.
Abandoning your allies, or trying to publicly denigrate them with that laughable claim that NATO "owes you billions" wasn't putting America First at all. It emboldened Putin to believe that he could invade the Ukraine with impunity because NATO is finished, and Americans wanted out of NATO.
The off-shoring of manufacturing continued unabated, and the manufacturing sector was in a recession BEFORE the pandemic hit. The tax cuts produced NO new jobs, because the trade wars made it impossible for manufacturers to plan long term.
All of the slashing and burning of air and water regulations has made the health of Americans worse, and is leading to deaths of Americans every year. Ignoring climate change is now costing the economy billions of dollars every year in flooding and wildfires.
With all immigration, legal or otherwise, on "pause" during the pandemic, worker shortages, which began during the Obama Administration, were exacerbated by more people retiring or changing career paths after the pandemic.
The chaos and destruction of the basic government infrastructure has slowed your recovery, with the lack of trade agreements with the EU, and other major trading partners, dismantling of the immigration court systems, refugee systems, and replacing them with for profit holding pens.
Trump took over with the lowest illegal immigration in 50 years, and 2 years later had a "national emergency" at the Southern Border, after he dismantled the refugee system there, and separated children from their parents.
Everything Trump focused on "fixing" has been left in a shambles and in chaos. You're blaming Biden for supply chain issues, and people not working, instead of blaming Trump for trying to destroy the country, and nearly succeeding.
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