Jason Chaffetz: No More Mean Tweets...But The Price Is High

Pretty much exactly what I've been saying:

   A little less than a year ago, a significant number of independent and Republican voters decided to trade bad tweets for bad policy. Today, your Twitter feed is void of President Trump's tweets. But the price was high.
   Gone are the good policies that drove the Trump economy and made the world a safer place. In their place are policies antithetical to prosperity, freedom and security.
   You traded energy efficiency for dependency on the Middle East. Whereas a year ago you enjoyed inexpensive gas, high paying energy jobs, and fewer incentives to entangle ourselves in Middle Eastern politics, today President Biden is begging OPEC to produce more oil. Apparently, his climate agenda can handle more oil production as long as Americans aren't the ones profiting from it.
   You traded an energy pipeline out of Canada for a crime pipeline out of Mexico. Instead of creating jobs for skilled American workers, Biden is creating opportunities for cartels, traffickers and COVID-positive migrants. By the end of 2021, according to New Mexico Rep. Yvette Herrell, the number of undocumented and illegal migrants welcomed across our borders by the Biden administration will be equivalent to the population of her whole state – about 2 million people.

Listen, I understand not being able to vote for the anti-Presidential President. Trump's persona and demeanor were train wrecks. Not nearly as bad as they were made out to be by the despicable MSM...but bad enough to disqualify him for the presidency. He's not the terrible person the press and the left made him out to be--but he doesn't have what it takes to be a representative of the nation. 

   However, you've got to be realistic about you options. I was. A lot of people weren't. The Democrats have been taken over by progressivism, and progressivism is insane. Disastrous policy was unavoidable if Biden was elected. Biden doesn't even matter and never really did. It was always Trump vs. the unhinged progressive left. It was always bad demeanor + surprisingly good policies vs. perfectly acceptable demeanor + catastrophic policies. Biden and the Dems told us what they were going to do. So, little that they have done can surprise you if you were paying attention. Though, as I've said: pessimistic as I was about the prospect of a Biden Presidency, even I didn't realize it would be this bad. I didn't realize he'd advance the cause of totalitarian progressivism so quickly and unrelentingly--e.g. via the war on "white supremacy." And I didn't realize he'd fuck Afghanistan up this bad. I mean...could anyone really have predicted this? We knew he'd push the "Equality Act" and the Green New Deal...those were predictable catastrophes...

   Anyway. Chaffetz is right.