Lesson Learned?

Was Trump able to teach America a much needed lesson?  Hopefully, voters will have learned from the Trump Presidency that business experience does not replace political experience.  Trump ran for office claiming his business experience would allow him to “make America great”.  The results of his four years in the Oval Office did not come close to living up to his promise.  Cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations did not make America great.  Building a wall between the southern US and Mexico didn’t make America great.  Neither did all of his Executive Orders threatening the environment and guaranteeing an acceleration of climate change contribute to greatness.  But perhaps the lack of experience was not the important lesson America shold have learned.  The sad reality and hopefully America will have learned that Republicans are incapable of governing.  Reagan’s economy failed to trickle down.  Brownback’s “Kamsas Experiment” another total failure. Kansas’ 2018 election should serve as a political lesson to our national leaders, and the experience of Kansas over the past several years should serve as a policy lesson.  In 2012 and 2013, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law the largest tax cuts in Kansas history. The top state income tax rate fell by nearly one-third and passthrough taxes that affected mainly relatively wealthy individuals were eliminated. With the decline in revenues came significant spending cuts in numerous areas. “Our new pro-growth tax policy,” Brownback predicted, “will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.” The theory, one that should sound familiar, was that cutting taxes and regulations on the wealthy would lead to greater investment and innovation, new jobs, more rapid economic growth and a stronger middle class. Trump, was twice impeached and twice acquitted by McConnell and other Republicans in the Senate, many of whom tried to overturn results of an election based solely upon misinformation, conspiracy theory, and outright lies.  And, when in the majority, what did Republican Congresses do but to further prove Republicans can’t govern.  And if that is not enough of a lesson there’s Texas Governor Abbott conducting a graduate seminar on how to not govern when the weather turns cold.  And the thesis for a PHD in incompetence in governing has to be the Trump governing during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Golfing is not governing! Republicans can obstruct, suppress votes, cut taxes, and eliminate necessary regulations, but REPUBLICANS CAN’T GOVERN!