Greenfield Recorder – My Turn: Trump is the better option for the presidency

I don’t understand how recent columnist Maddie Raymond or many Harris supporters could conclude that she was a viable option for the presidency (“Harris has flaws, but defends democracy,” August 25). The Democratic Party’s best option was expelled from the party his entire family belonged to and forced to run as an independent. He recently suspended his campaign and endorsed a candidate half the nation wants to behead, as if the nation were dressing up as French revolutionaries.

While the author is a college student, as a 30-year-old, I would like to point out that I lived through eight disastrous years during my high school and college years when the President slowed the economic recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression by flooding the economy with stimulus packages that did little to make ends meet. My family nearly lost their dairy farm and had to borrow money to make ends meet.

Yet the candidate she and many others are proposing as the best alternative wants to put a price cap on food. Ultimately, farmers will pay for this policy and go out of business. I will laugh and say, “I told you so,” when we as a nation are forced to consume even more products from other countries that have much lower food production standards than we do. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

I have never been a member of the Democratic Party, nor do I intend to be one. In my entire life I have never seen them produce a candidate or a policy that has benefited the country as a whole.

My side of the aisle as a Republican has also had little to no success in this regard. For all his faults, former President Donald Trump is still the better choice for president. His policy record is better than that of the administration of which Vice President Kamala Harris is a member. He even sped up production of the COVID vaccine that the Biden-Harris administration practically forced on the population.

The current uncontrollable influx of immigrants is not because Trump failed politically, but because the Biden-Harris administration reversed all of the policies pursued by Trump, looked the other way as the influx arrived, and had no plan for how to deal with it once it got here. And people want this to continue? I could go on, but I’ve probably already way overstepped my allotted space.

Ethan Robertson lives in Ashfield.