Laura Hollis: Trump Isn’t Dangerous; This Administration Is

Ever since Donald Trump descended the escalator in 2015 to announce his run for the presidency, every arm of the Left’s prodigious propaganda machinery (the media, Hollywood, academia, the Democratic Party) has howled that Trump posed a unprecedented threat to the safety and stability of the United States — and the world. No aspect of life would be left unscathed by Trump: the economy, the military, foreign policy, law and order. You name it, Trump would wreak havoc on it.

Vanity Fair claimed that Trump would “destroy the (U.S.) economy out of spite.” Not to be outdone, the Washington Post opined that “A President Trump could destroy the world economy.”

And when they weren’t roaring about Trump’s malevolent intentions, the propagandists were crying wolf about his mental state, and invoking the 25th Amendment. Just before the November 2020 election, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that she planned to sponsor legislation that would convene a panel of psychiatrists charged with “reviewing whether President Trump is mentally fit to remain in office,” in order to start the constitutional process of removing him from office.

So much projection; so little time. Let’s look just at the economy.

Back in 2012, when Barack Obama was president, he mocked the notion of $2.00 a gallon gas prices as “phony election-year promises that never come about.” Obama was proven wrong when the average price of a gallon of gas dipped below $2.00 in 2020 when Trump was president. On Trump’s last day in office, the average price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. was $2.38.

On Joe Biden’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that has become emblematic of his presidency, stopping the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a conduit that would have transported more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada into the U.S. He has since canceled or halted leases for the production of oil in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. These decisions, along with other Biden policies and regulations, have contributed to spiraling energy prices. This past summer, the average price of gasoline hit $5.00 a gallon. In some parts of California, a gallon of gas has cost $8 a gallon this year.

This, in turn, has dramatically increased the prices of everything else, including production and transportation of goods.

Wages were rising under the Trump administration, while unemployment continued to decrease. Inflation was low.

In stark contrast, inflation has increased every month since Biden took office, and is now the highest it has been in 40 years, creating what some economists have calculated is an 8.5% reduction in Americans’ “real wages.”

The “green” energy policies that Biden and his handlers do a happy dance for are having a negative effect on the global economy as well. Electricity and gas prices are through the roof. Not only are individuals and families affected; across Europe and the U.K., companies

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