Ever since justice, Sonia Sotomayor joined the US Supreme Court, she has been a powerful voice for justice, but now that Donald Trump is heading back to the White House, well, there are some out there who seem to be pressuring Sotomayor to retire so President Biden can appoint a replacement before leaving office. Let’s be real here, people, this pressure is sexist ablest and downright foolish Given the timing, Democrats really need to leave that woman alone and focus on their own problems first. Although, as you know, I am not a fan of lifetime tenure for judges or justices. For that matter, Justice Sotomayor should be allowed to serve as long as she wants just like her male counterparts, the woman isn’t even that old, really. She’s 70, if it weren’t for Amal George Clooney be in her dating pool, and Sotomayor is younger than justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, plus her soul is intact, and I hear that that enhances youth, yet no one’s pressuring the men to retire. Historically, justices have served well into their 80s and beyond. Justice John Paul Stevens, for example, retired at 90, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist, well, he served until he died at 80. The idea that sotomayors health should end her career, while that’s also unfounded, she has had type one diabetes since she was a child, and sotomayors managed it without any issue in her 15 years on the court, Holly Berry has the same thing, and the woman still does most of her own stunts. So get real here, this pressure to what ask Sotomayor to step down over diabetes that’s rooted in ableism, plain and simple, her diabetes do not prevent her from doing her job, just as it does not stop millions of Americans from doing theirs and coming at. Sotomayor simply confirms that there is a double standard when it comes to women serving in the judiciary. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was pressured to retire constantly in her later years, even when she was only in her early 80s, it wasn’t her fault that a minority of America chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. And speaking of gender based double standards, what about the men here, Justices like William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and even Antonin Scalia, they served into old age without the same pressure to step down for this greater good. Yet Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman who was appointed to the US Supreme Court, well, she faced similar pressure as Sotomayor is getting now, women are often expected to make sacrifices, even if there’s no sacrifice to be made. Justice. Sotomayor earned her seat on the court just like her male colleagues, and she deserves to decide when to pack it up on her own terms and at her own time, not based on when gendered expectations come calling. And let’s be honest here, this last minute push for her to retire is foolish Given the timing. There are less than 75 days until Trump takes office. When President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the court, that was what March 16, 2016, well, there were over 300 days left in his term, and we all remember how that ended. Trying to force out Sotomayor now would likely end the exact same way, with no appointment, and Trump would get to fill the seat anyway. Trying to force her out for political convenience is both unrealistic and risky. Justice. Sotomayor deserves the same respect and autonomy as any other justice receives without added pressure based on her gender or her health. So to those out there talking retirement for Sotomayor, all I have to say is, go be silly elsewhere.

It in the 2024 presidential election, one message came through loud and clear above all others, Latino voters are sick and tired of what Democrats are offering or not offering, and we’re not going to take it anymore. We’re fed up with being told we have to vote for Democrats, even though they’re out of step with us, because Republicans are so awful, no argument on that last part, by the way. Over the years, this defeatist philosophy may actually have backfired and made Democrats worse and even more out of step with America’s largest minority, which now constitutes about a 10th of the electorate.

After all, if you think you have no competition for these voters? Well, then you may think you can coast and not put in much effort. It

wasn’t that long ago that Latinos were a dependable part of the Democratic base. In the 1990s we turned out in large numbers for Bill Clinton, giving him 73% of our votes in his 1996 re election bid. In the 2000s a sizable chunk of us defected to the GOP just long enough to vote for George W Bush, who got 44% of Latino vote in his 2004 re election for the next 20 years. That was the high water mark for Latino support for a Republican running for president, 44%

no longer in this year’s election. President Elect Donald Trump got a whopping 46% of Latino vote. He got the support of 55% of Latino men, beating Kamala Harris by 10 points with that demographic overall, Trump increased his support among Latinos by double digits compared to his showing in 2020

he carried all seven battleground states, and he did that on the strength of Latino support in states like Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

This is my MEA. Copa, I didn’t see this coming for weeks. I’ve been predicting that Trump would do fairly well with Latinos. He might get as much as 40% of Latino vote, I said, But 45% that was beyond my imagination. I should have known whenever Trump’s name is on the ballot, I underestimate his appeal to Latinos. He constantly improves his performance from what it was the time before.

In 2016 according to exit polls, Trump got 28% of the Latino vote. In 2020 he got 32%

and now in 2024 it’s up to 46%

Moreover, Trump did well with all the tribes that make up the 62 million Latinos who live in the United States. He won with Mexican Americans in South Texas, with Puerto Ricans in eastern Pennsylvania, and with Cuban Americans in South Florida. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Well, there are three reasons. One, Latinos are tired of being ignored and taken for granted by Democrats who think they can simply scare us away from voting for Republicans while putting in minimal effort to keep us in their camp.

Two, we don’t like racism and nativism. That’s true, but there’s another ism that we’re also not too crazy about. That’s elitism. We’re tired of feeling looked down upon by the Democratic Party and liberal media pundits and three we care about issues beyond immigration. According to CNN exit polls, 66% of Latinos who voted for Trump said the economy was their top issue. Immigration was far down on the list, by the way, in light of all the love that Latinos are showing Trump and showed him in this election, Republicans should seriously rethink the ugly threat they so callously threw around during the campaign. Trump liked to rev up white people in his audience by telling them he was going to deport scores of brown people. Now I have to think, is that really wise. A better plan would be to get all those folks naturalized as US citizens, get them voting, and then get them into the Republican tent for the next 20 years. If Republicans are itching to deport someone, might I suggest they take a good look at purging their party as some of the more extreme Maga folks, like the January 6 rioters, you know the racist the Nativists, the anti Semites, there you have it. There’s a real basket of deportables. You.

Donald Trump, one Kamala Harris lost, and we have to talk about everything related to this. Now I want to start at a place where I wish the right had started in 2020 I am not here to claim that there was fraud. I am not here to claim that it was rigged. I am not going to suggest to anyone that they go to Washington, DC to interrupt the count of the electoral votes. We respect democracy, and so everything that the left is currently doing is the opposite of what happened in 2020 Harris didn’t win, so she shouldn’t be the president. I have no interest in encouraging, suggesting or trying to crowbar her into the White House, even though she did not win, because that’s not how the country works. Trump won, and that’s it. He gets to be president. Or if his deterioration continues, it’ll increasingly be JD, Vance, behind the scenes. That’s first and foremost. Secondly,

Trump is winning with not only a larger electoral vote margin than previously, but also he’s winning the popular vote. And so there is going to be a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking about what this was all about. There are those who are saying that crowning Kamala Harris, the nominee with no real primary was never going to work. I don’t know about that. It’s not a scenario we’ve explored many times. It’s a very low sample size. It could have worked, but it did not work, that’s for sure. What about her identity? I do think that there are people in this country who when they see the white guy who’s already been president or a black woman that I’m being told is a Marxist and a socialist and a communist. It’s not necessarily about racism, but that certainly is a factor that should be considered. But what I really think this is about is ignorance for some and people who genuinely love what Trump is offering for others. I’ll give you examples of both. We recently looked at interviews with young men voting Trump, and they were asked, Why are you voting Trump? And they said, because of the high gas prices. Gas prices right now are at their post pandemic low since the pandemic, gas prices have never been lower within a few cents. They are simply voting on ignorance. They believe that gas prices are high and that they would be lower under Trump. In reality, gas prices have come down and are at their post pandemic low. This is common. Millions and millions of people voted based on things they just got wrong. That’s it. Secondly, we have to acknowledge it’s not Russian interference. It’s not Kamala is a bad candidate. It’s not bad ground game. There are 10s of millions of people who want the convicted felon, civilly liable sexual assaulter, wanna be dictator, authoritarian, to be president. They want him to go after his political enemies. They want him to go after media outlets unfriendly to him. They want all of it. And I disagree with those people. I think their values are on American I think that it’s bad for the country, but they want this. They got a choice. If it had been Trump or Biden, I think the result would have been the same. Might have been even worse. They had Trump and Harris, and they said, No, I want that. That’s what I want. And what needs to happen now is the Democratic Party needs to figure out, well, how do we win when 10s of millions of people don’t care about the sexual assault, they don’t care about the criminal, criminal convictions, they don’t care about the lies. They don’t care about Trump pretending to be religious, or did they that’s what they wanted. And so how does the Democratic Party succeed in such an environment? And I don’t know the answer yet. Anyway, finally, one of the really scary things to me is that there is going to be a compendium of Grifters and dilettantes that are going to be part of the next Trump administration. People are talking about, what about Robert F Kennedy Junior for HHS Secretary? What? What people are talking about a formal position for Elon Musk. The idea of Trump’s kooky lawyer Alina haba as Attorney General was floated until Trump got the better idea of maybe that Judge Eileen cannon, who’s been friendly to him as attorney general, we’re going to see a clown car of an administration. And so my message to my fellow leftists is this is not the time to turn away. If we turn away, they win on everything we cannot see ground to them, it’s.

Demoralizing. It’s disappointing. Take a little time off. I’m with you, but we have to come back engaged, because when the right loses, they go, we have to get more involved, and we have to do the same thing

Right? Okay, election is over. Trump declared the victor. You know what’s not happening. You don’t have countless Democrats saying the election was stolen. It was rigged. The machines must have broken down. No, you don’t have that.

The opponent has already

called Trump to congratulate him. This is called civility and democracy,

lead by example. Right?

What happens next? Well, let me tell you what has happened now. The

United States of America was founded on principles that are adversarial

to decency,

founded on the principle that you could own another human being, that you could violate their body, you could violate

their very existence with no penalty of government.

That’s the DNA.

But you can always nurture beyond the nature.

And this country had an opportunity to nurture beyond the nature. There are many who supported Trump who would tell you, well,

they don’t like the, you know, rhetoric and some of the racism, and obviously they will say publicly, they don’t like the fact that

racist organizations endorsed, officially endorsed Trump,

or that he meets with white supremacists. I

want you to think about the things that made this country actually great.

It was never divisiveness.

It was coalition building.

Think about the people who raised the collective consciousness of America, not politicians, but people like Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, who never held political office, and others,

for those who may feel

disappointed,

I want To remind you

that the individuals

who make this country great are not its politicians, but its people.

Never forget. I.

I was inexplicably relaxed on the day of the election. I even forgot it was happening for most of the day.

My friends, the relaxation has left the building.

It turns out that, when presented with the option between a convicted criminal who spent the days before the election spouting some of the most hateful, racist, unhinged rhetoric that has ever been seen on the American political stage…and a woman…A woman was a step too far.

Now, I’ve been listening to the pundits since late Tuesday night and yes, it appears that the state of the economy and the hispanic vote played a role in what amounted to a complete Republican sweep of the election…but…I really thought that, as a country, we were fundamentally good people, who believed in freedom of religion, a woman’s right to choose…the constitution. But never before has it been more apparent that the promise of the two-term Obama administration – the hope that we were progressing towards a more equitable, more democratic future – has not played out.

I know what I’m supposed to say. Buckle down, now’s not the time to stop fighting, we now have a greater responsibility than ever to try to fix our broken system…but I’m so tired. Everyone is. And that’s the greatest danger we face here, I think…the fact that in situations like this one, it is much easier to look the other way.

Resistance takes time, and energy, and money. It’s not easy. And we’ve been doing it for so long. The Lincoln project, the millions of dollars in donor money, the nationwide protests…of course we need to keep organizing, but it’d be a fiction to say this loss wasn’t deeply, deeply demoralizing.

We’re in the process of a not-so-slow slide towards full autocracy. Anybody who tells you they know what’s going to happen over the course of the next four years is likely either wrong or on TV, but it’s safe to say that the people holding on the guardrails – the free-for-now press, the organizers, the diminished House and Senate – have their work cut out for them.

I’m shocked. I wish I wasn’t; I somehow managed not to be emotionally prepared for this. But here we are.

I’m sorry if you’re hurting. I’m hurting, too. One day at a time, I guess. We can do hard things. I just wish we didn’t have to do them so often.

Yeah, and one day in California, they came for legacy admissions, and no one spoke out, because, well, it was the right thing to do at a time when beleaguered white males who walk around with victim complexes are working overtime to restrict access to higher education to anyone who doesn’t look like them, it’s morally correct that we also do away with the oldest form of affirmative action, the age old policy that dictates that who you know is more important than what you know, racial preferences. That’s nickels and dimes. The big con are those preferences for alumni or donors. That’s the real injustice in the Golden State. It is now a violation of state law for either a public or private college or university to give an applicant a leg up in the admissions process just because a parent went there or someone hand over a big check to fund a new football stadium. Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law AB 1780 which prohibits legacy and donor preferences in the admissions process that’s going to shake up fancy private institutions of higher learning in California, like Santa Clara University, where in 2022 13.3% of the entering freshman class had family ties. Or the University of Southern California, where 14.4% had a family connection. And Stanford University, where 13.8% had a relative hook them up. The law, which won’t go into effect until September 2025 is the second of its kind, following the lead of Maryland, which earlier this year, also banned legacy admissions in both public and private schools. So what’s behind this trend? A couple of things, actually. First, do you remember the varsity blue scandal from a few years ago? Sure you do. The Justice Department dropped the hammer on parents and college admissions consultants who tried to lie and cheat rich kids way into selective schools. Then came the crackdown on affirmative action, which culminated in the Supreme Court striking down the consideration of race or ethnicity in college and university admissions. You put those two things together, and we were bound to get to a place where people begin to question whether the privileged, the coddled and the entitled are amid all this chaos, using a side door to continue to sneak in to the corridors of power and privilege. Look, I have no beef with legacies, per se. People are going to use whatever advantage they can to improve their chances of getting into highly selective colleges and universities. That’s human nature. Sometimes that means playing a sport or a musical instrument. Other times it could mean hailing from Montana or some other state that is woefully underrepresented in the student body. You see, diversity takes many forms, but there is a question about fairness and moral consistency in all this. Remember the concept of merit? You hear that word, the M word, fired off all the time in the affirmative action debate, or whenever white conservatives are trying to keep people of color away from any opportunity to better themselves, the exclusionists worship at the altar of merit. This is their holy grail. All hail the God of merit. All that is good and pure. Well, how about now? Where’s the merit when it comes to legacy admission? What happened to merit when someone need only donate a library to ensure that their child is admitted to a selective school, while someone else who worked harder and made sacrifices isn’t let in as a dark blue state where there is no real check on the power of one of the political parties. California doesn’t always get it right, but this time, I think it did. Legacy admissions had to go. After all, fair is fair. If we’re going to end one kind of admissions preference, we had better end them all. Otherwise people might conclude that the never ending crusade to keep people of color away from colleges and university campuses isn’t about defending merit at all, but rather about something indefensible, racism.

Well, this is it. It’s been a while. We’ve been waiting for this for a while, but finally, we are on the precipice of the 2024, election. I want a bottom line my final predictions, and some of them may be less titillating than others, because it’s just what the facts tell us and then talk a little bit about the next couple of weeks. So bottom line my prediction today is that Democrats take the house by a very small margin, that Democrats lose the Senate and Republicans take the Senate by the slimmest to a moderate margin, depending on how some of these races go. And I don’t even think it’s worth making a prediction when it comes to presidential it is a coin flip. It is a coin flip. This race is tighter, particularly in the battleground states, than any we have seen. If what you want is an optimistic case for Kamala Harris, I could provide one to you. If what you want is an optimistic case for Donald Trump, I could provide one to you there as well. And at this point, it’s going to be close, and we will know very soon the real questions are with regard to the repercussions of this election now when it comes to major legislation, at least over the next two years, on the assumption that we have a divided Congress, Democrats controlling the House and Republicans controlling the Senate, it is going to be very difficult to pass extraordinarily one sided major legislation. There will likely have to be some level of compromise in order to do it. One example comes with tax policy. It’s very popular with tax policy to say, here’s what Kamala Harris’s plan would do, and here’s what Donald Trump’s plan would do. But of course, that assumes that they are able to pass their plans as designed, which almost never happens, even if you have both houses of Congress. So on the one hand, Kamala Harris is taxes. I believe I saw a report would raise the effective tax rate of the very richest Americans 14% whereas if Trump gets his way, the very richest Americans would see a significant reduction in taxes. If Democrats control the House and Republicans control the Senate, neither one of those plans is going to pass. It’s going to be negotiated. The critical things, in my view, with regard to taxes are that there are provisions from the 2017 tax reform that Trump did that are set to expire in 2025

The big ones are what happens with the salt cap deduction capped at $10,000 by Trump, and what happens with the Q bid qualified business interest deduction. Both of these have affected me, and I know many people that they’ve affected and so I, like many Americans were, I’m waiting around to see what happens in this election, and then what happens when it comes to taxes. So this is sort of like the legislative approach, divided Congress. There’s going to be compromise, but we have to step back from that. There is an inflection point here in this election. If Kamala Harris wins, we are likely seeing the nail in the coffin of Maga Trumpism. Trump won in 2016

thanks to about 100,000 votes in three states. Electorally, of course, since then, Republicans underperformed the 2018 midterms. Trump lost the 2020 election. The red wave of 2022 never materialized, and in fact, Democrats extended their majority in the Senate. Trump has lost a lot of stuff for Republicans. If Trump loses again, then it is probably the end of Maga Trumpism. And what you will see by 2026 certainly by 2028 with the Republican presidential pick for that year, you were going to see a move away from Maga Trumpism. Now, will it go back to something like Romney republicanism, or will it go to some new, completely whacked out extremism? We don’t yet know. On the other hand, if Donald Trump wins the presidential election, you will likely see, first of all, de facto president. JD Vance, as we continue to suspect that Donald Trump is not fit to be president, especially not for four years, at which point he would be approaching his mid 80s. As we see that there is every expectation that a Trump win means a de facto Vance presidency, that is very scary, but it also is going to reinforce Maga Trumpism as a winning direction for the Republican Party. And we will likely see a lot of Maga candidates in the midterms of 2026 and potentially even a Trump anointed Maga candidate for president in 2028 if Donald Trump still maintains his faculties and cognitive abilities at that point in time, which remains to be seen. So there has been a lot made of when Democrats and leftists say Trump is a threat to democracy, that’s an incitement to violence.

Us. I don’t believe that, but what I do believe is that this is really a major inflection point, and this is an inflection point not only for domestic policy, when it comes to taxes, education, immigration, it’s also an inflection point for foreign policy. How will our allies see us? How seriously will be be ridiculed by the world if Trump wins. So those who try to minimize what’s riding on this election, you know, back in 2012 when it was Romney versus Obama, Obama seeking reelection, I supported Obama. I said I think Obama’s the better pick, but democracy was not at risk. If Mitt Romney became president, we would have a president I disagree with on a lot of issues. This is different, and so we will all know the results soon, and once we do, we will start evaluating and planning for the next two and four years. I.

Trump. Okay, listen, Trump is on the trajectory to lose, and how could he not be on the trajectory to lose? He’s antithetical to the progression of America as a whole. He’s petty, non concerned with the actual dynamics of democracy. Cares less about the Constitution. Truly doesn’t care about your rights only when he can utilize it as red meat to excite a particular base. He’s friendly to racist. He brings out the worst in the nation. He’s a divider, not a uniter. He doesn’t build coalitions. He tries to destroy them. So he is on a losing trajectory. However you have Kamala Harris. Is it not interesting that VP, Kamala Harris, now president, presidential contender, has been able to forge not only a respectable campaign against him, but a very united one that brings together individuals, not only from the Democratic side, both progressives, liberals, et cetera, but also on the conservative side. How many conservatives have come out and said they are supporting Kamala Harris not because they agree with all of her policies, but they disagree with so many of Trump’s? Let’s talk about policies that are not necessarily part of the statute or a bill, the policy of how you govern your personal life, the policy of what you actually believe in inside of your heart. What about the policy of doing right because it is the right thing to do? What about the policy of democracy itself? I don’t think anyone at this point believes that Donald Trump somehow loves democracy or loves the Constitution, or even loves America. Hell, it’s a debate if he even loves his wife. So the decision, unfortunately comes down to this. The policies are, what they are. We may agree or disagree, but if we agree or disagree in good faith, we live to compete another day. Democracy requires no finality. You see, as long as you keep democracy alive, you always have an opportunity to put your agenda back on the platform. Because we’re not really voting for personalities, are we? Or at least, we shouldn’t be. We are voting for policies because policies create room for us to progress as a nation when we devolve to only selecting our leaders based on their personality and not based on the policy or at least understanding the core principle of voting is democracy, then we have failed the very nature, the very DNA of America. So where are we now? The choice is clear. You.

I have spent months – years – telling you that Donald Trump is not just a “bad choice” for President, but a threat to virtually everything we hold dear. To our rights, our future, in many cases our very lives. This is not a drill. 

In a recent New York Times opinion, former acting Solicitor General Neil Katyal raised serious alarms about a potential constitutional crisis if Donald Trump wins next week – one even more severe than the events of January 6.

NEIL KATYAL: I think we are looking at a very possible constitutional crisis and one that’s going to make January 6, 2021, look like a dress rehearsal. “And this year, the rogues have had four years to go pro and perfect the big lie.

JORDAN REID: And just to hammer home the potential consequences of said constitutional crisis, let’s take a look at what the right is fighting for. On October 27 there was a Trump rally in my home city of New York, which I am not happy about, and here were some of the sentiments expressed by Trump’s cronies. 

[clip of comedian talking about Puerto Rico being a garbage dump]

[clip of Tucker Carlson saying Harris is Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ]

[clip of Stephen Miller saying “America is for Americans and Americans only”]

For Americans only. Could you define “American” for me, Mr. Miller? 

And sure, Trump’s people came out and said Trump didn’t say those things, someone else said it, et cetera ad infinitum this is what he does. He puts out the dog whistle and lets other people do the dirty work.

That is a Nazi rally – the phrase even trended on X throughout the event. Those people are Nazis. They think calling Kamala Harris Samoan-Malaysian-whatever is a funny insult, with the insult being that whatever she is, she’s not white. 

How is this blatant willingness to dehumanize entire swathes of the United States population not alarming to virtually everyone? Because guess what, these guys don’t actually care about protecting unborn babies, or saving your jobs from immigrants, or any of the positions they spout. They care about power, and about money. Today it’s the Puerto Ricans who are a garbage pile, and tomorrow it might be you. Because they. Don’t. Care. About. You. 

His supporters have shown they’re willing to get dirty for their cult leader. I don’t think that’s a question; the only question is how far they’ll go. 

Anyway. Happy election week. I don’t know. It’ll all be over soon?

The Presidential election could not come soon enough. We are now less than one week away from officially deciding our future as a nation. And if you’re an undecided voter, or if you think you already know, I ask that you just please consider this when it comes to electing the president, we’re deciding between two things. One is largely maintaining the status quo with possibly a touch of progress in terms of protecting individual rights, advancing small businesses and uplifting the lower class. And the second thing is project 2025 if you’re unfamiliar with this political initiative that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump will advance if he returns to Office, you should be aware Here are six things that you should take note of when it comes to project 2025 first, this initiative centralizes power in the executive branch, restructuring how federal agencies operate with an emphasis on Reducing checks and balances. Checks and balances are the fundamentals of our democracy. So that would chip away at our democracy and our processes, and it would also take power away from Congress and other institutions. That’s exactly what our founding fathers sought to avoid. And on that note, Project 2025, will also weaken regulatory agencies, abolishing some even and these agencies, while they’re essential as they protect public health, consumer rights, labor standards, so that could lead to an increased corporate influence and also reduced oversight on issues like workplace safety, consumer protection and environmental safeguards. Do you want your employer to be able to force you to work 12 hour days in order for it to be considered full time, or maybe craft to get to choose whether to disclose chemicals that they put in their food? Third project 2025, reverses climate policies. It dismantles environmental regulations, including climate change initiatives, this will slow or reverse progress on mitigating climate change, potentially leading to greater environmental degradation and global instability with temperatures rising globally, that is dangerous. Did you experience hurricane alim or see the damage that was done? Do you want more of that? I can tell you that I don’t. Fourth project 2025. Will roll back civil rights, civil liberties, immigration policies, LGBTQ rights, these hard won protections will hit us, marginalized people hard. Yeah, it’s going to reverse decades of progress on human rights and equality. But add to that, even non marginalized people will suffer as they’re going to see the reversal of basic things like the right to contraception or access to pornography. Do you want the government up in your business or cutting off only fans? Because project 2025 will do that. And fifth the far right initiative, well, it will dramatically overhaul the federal workforce project 2025 it will implement loyalty based hiring and firing practices, prioritizing individuals who align with certain ideological beliefs. This politicization of the civil service will erode impartial governance and lead to inefficiencies and absolute corruption. And so if you think it’s bad now, oh my goodness, when the head of the Department of Transportation gets to hire his little brother’s new company to oversee highway reconstruction, you’re really going to experience the pain. And lastly, Project 2025 will erode international relations. The game plan there is to prioritize an isolationist foreign policy, and that looks like reducing commitments to international alliances like NATO and the Paris Agreement and other multilateral efforts, this is going to destabilize global cooperation and also reduce US influence on the world stage when it comes to shaping international policies, trade agreements, geopolitical strategies and speaking of trade agreements, isolating from global Markets, that disrupts our access to essential goods, creates shortages and increase costs for businesses and for consumers, we’ll be cut off at a costly price. So we’ll basically be Cuba without universal health care. None of that is good project 2025. Will not streamline government or reduce bureaucracy or enhance our national sovereignty? No, it’s going to be a harmful initiative that will significantly shift us toward more of an authoritarian government, roll back our civil liberties, disregard pressing global issues and also isolate us on the geopolitical stage. That is not something I want, and I’m wise enough to know that if I go to the ballot box that I need to choose someone who doesn’t want that either, and that individual is Kamala Harris. And so when you go vote in November, it’s imperative that you remember that if you don’t want the government in your business, that you want to continue to have the right to choose. Choose what you do in your bedroom and you like, let’s say, getting limes from Mexico without having to pay $6 for them, then maybe you shouldn’t be voting for Donald Trump, because project 2025, is a problem.