On the last day, the Party of Plague
For years, I have been railing against the Republican Party as a literal – literal! – Party of Plague. In these final days, they have quadrupled back down on this in ways that will kill millions of Americans.
Not “might.” Will.
Appointing RFK, Jr. as czar of public health and letting him “go wild” will kill millions. Not immediately, no, but over time. Trump himself is utterly refusing to promise he and his party won’t ban vaccines and said on Sunday that RFK's pledge to eliminate fluoridation of water on day one “sounds OK to me.”
If they do this, millions will die. And an outsized number of them will be children.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/04/a-pitch-i-did-not-expect-to-have-to-make-on-this-final-day/
@moira The key is, presidents simply don't have authority to do a lot of this stuff.
And in the examples where they do have such authority we need to learn the lesson of, we really need to push legislatures to take that authority away.
It was always a mistake to give presidents too much authority, and neither Trump nor Harris can do a lot of the things that they are promising.
But yeah, let's keep firmly in mind that this is why we don't give presidents that kind of authority, and we need to not give them more authority, and we need to take it back.
