Democrats keep having to clean up Republican messes. When is our turn to advance America?

https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-keep-having-clean-republican-080007532.html

Erin McPike, Opinion contributor
,USA TODAY Opinion•July 20, 2020


Should former Vice President Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump in the November election, his victory will cement a pattern that influential Democratic messengers would be wise to exploit savagely in order to change.

Many Americans have not yet grasped that every time they have given Republicans the keys to the White House over the past half-century, they turn to Democrats to extinguish the fire. This arrangement hampers party priorities each time Democrats come to power because their first orders of business are to clean up the ashes. Once the country is sturdy enough, the electorate returns to Republicans to get a little extra walking around cash in the form of marginal tax cuts, and Democratic policy goes back underground.

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Biden should commit to having a full slate of ambassadors nominated before he ever steps out onto the West Front of the Capitol to deliver his inaugural address. He’ll need all the help he can get abroad: He’ll have to rejoin the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, patch up a fraying and aggravated NATO, and even repair decimated individual relationships throughout Europe.

Domestically, he’ll have to undo the extraordinary damage Trump has done to public health by failing to contain the spread of COVID-19. He’ll need to recharge the blighted economy. Note that every single one of the aforementioned tasks amounts to a cleanup effort versus a new policy priority that can advance the country.

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