Trump Returns To An Old Formula: Lies And Hatred By Jessicah Pierre
(2018-10-31 at 16:56:31 )

Trump Returns to an Old Formula: Lies and Hatred By Jessicah Pierre

The president is putting up a dirty fight to maintain the Republican majority in Congress.

Midterm elections are approaching. The first major election since President Trump took office, our current political landscape could shift dramatically depending on the results.

If Democrats can take back control of the House of Representatives - or even the Senate - that could have a major effect on President Trumps ability to pass legislation.

The damage that Trump has created since he has been president has motivated a record number of women and people of color to run for office.

Democrats are banking on this new wave of hope, and for candidates to assert progressive ideas and policies on the state and federal levels.

With many media outlets forecasting a potential "blue wave" in favor of Democrats, Republicans are ramping up their campaigns to secure their majority in Congress.

Among these Republicans is President Trump, who has benefited tremendously from our current GOP Congress.

Congress has given President Trump the green light to pass an enormous tax cut for corporations and the ultra-wealthy, stood by as he hss separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents who are seeking asylum in the United States, and confirmed Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid massive protests around credible sexual misconduct allegations against him.

With more to-dos to check off his conservative agenda, such as building a border wall between Mexico and the United States, Trump cannot afford to lose the Republican majority in Congress.

So, in an effort to get his supporters excited to vote for Republican candidates, he is returning to tactics that have worked pretty well for him: lying and hatred.

Within the past month, President Trump has lied about creating a plan for a middle-class tax cut, when in reality he signed a tax bill that will create a $2 trillion federal budget deficit by helping millionaires and billionaires.

Similarly, the President Trump administration is considering writing trans people out of Title IX, a federal civil rights code that bans sex discrimination in federally funded schools, by defining "sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with."

This act could reverse life-saving protections for transgender people across the nation. But to President Trump it is worth it, because he knows these types of actions rally up his evangelical base.

It does not stop there - it also extends to President Trumps signature issue, immigration.

It is no accident that just because of the upcoming election, he made a public promise to end birthright citizenship, an ironclad constitutional provision.

That means babies who are born in this country to immigrant parents would no longer be granted automatic citizenship.

Not to mention, he is sending 5,000 troops to the border to "fend off" a caravan of migrants and refugees, half of whom are women and children.

It is obvious that President Trumps willing to put up a dirty fight to maintain the Republican majority in Congress.

Will it have an impact on the outcome of the election?

Or will voters turn out for candidates who promise to protect everyone in our country, including the most marginalized?

Well, that is up to us.

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