Let’s peer outside the bubble of current Republican officials to see what some former Republican officials have to say about current affairs.
On climate change: two former secretaries of both state and treasury under Republican administrations, James Baker and George Shultz, say: “Many GOP leaders … deny basic science and fail to offer concrete solutions.”
However, “Our reliance on fossil fuels contributes to a less stable world, empowers rogue petro-states and makes us vulnerable to a volatile world oil market.”
Chinese hoax?
On the 2017 Trump tax cuts that were going to “pay for themselves,” former GOP Gov. Jeb Bush remarks, “Revenue up 3 percent, spending up 8 percent … DC doesn’t care.”
Trump claimed the cuts were designed to help the middle class.
Baker and Shultz get to the heart of the matter: “Voters feel that the American political and economic system is rigged against their interests.”
Make America great again?
Help wanted: a cult interventionist to help our poor captive Republicans escape.
Ed Chadd
Port Angeles