Who Is More Extreme?

By Itara O'Connell, As published in The Union

Who demonstrates extremism, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? Trump claims Kamala Harris is extreme? She wants healthcare for all including reproductive freedom, labor rights, voting rights, truth in education, and gun safety reform including background checks. Are these extreme policies? Trump says he wants to be a dictator to provide him with total power, exempting him from prosecution. He promises this will be the last election. These plans are the definition of extremism.

Trump’s extremist policies are laid out in Project 2025:

  • Put the Department of Justice under the direct control of the president.

  • Fire 50,000 civil servants and replace them with MAGA supporters.

  • Stop women from getting IVF and birth control.

  • Criminalize women who need reproductive care such as an abortion.

  • Check and monitor women’s menstrual cycles.

  • End Medicaid, which funds long-term care for the elderly.

  • Abolish Affordable Health Care.

  • End Head Start, and the Department of Education.

  • Abolish the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ending climate change research, continue to subsidize the oil industry, and get rid of subsidies for alternative sources of energy.

  • Roll back gay rights.

  • Abolish the Federal Reserve.

  • Abolish Public television and NPR.

Regarding immigration policy, Trump prevented the passage of the bipartisan immigration legislation because he needed the issue as a campaign tool. We must not forget that Trump called on the Proud Boys to storm the capitol, to hang our Vice President Mike Pence and kill legislators and police. Now that’s extreme! These are EXTREME policies, not to mention Trump’s plan for more tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy; the rounding up of ten million undocumented workers; and adding a 10% tariff on goods from China, which will cause more inflation, hurting working and middle class families the most.

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