Open letter to President Trump
Dear Mr. President,
You need to inspire the nation if you want to win.
Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel, in the June 12th edition of that paper, writes that too often
you are running against yourself. Amidst a pandemic, mass unemployment, riots, and demonstrations, the country yearns for “calm leadership and a positive vision for the future.”
She thinks you have a strong message, provided that you force the hostile media to focus on your winning message instead of the petty quarrels you repeatedly provide them for distractions. She would have you emphasize how
Americans can vote again for the policies that revived the economy after the moribund Obama-Biden years and continue transforming the judiciary. Or they can take a chance on a Democrat who has promised to raise taxes on 90% of Americans, kill blue-collar fossil-fuel jobs and ban guns, and a party that is considering demands to “defund the police.”
Too low a bar
So far so good. But we believe that Ms. Strassel sets too low a bar. While the employment figures and judicial appointments of your first three years, 2017-2019, were exceptional and deserve to be reinstated and continued if you are re-elected, you need to provide further inspirational reasons for Americans to vote for you — reasons for putting aside the chaos, petty twitter wars, trade war blunders, and alienation of foreign allies that marred your first term despite its accomplishments.
May we suggest highlighting some additional themes for your 2020 campaign, so that it becomes inspirational, especially to young people, as well as addressing urgent needs? We urge the following six points:
- An accelerated program to land humans on Mars, as the first step toward colonizing the solar system;
- An accelerated missile defense program, to reduce the hypersonic nuclear missile threats from China and Russia, not just Iran and North Korea;
- A $5,000 NDEA-cash award to every high school graduate with an Advanced Placement score of 4 or better in Calculus BC, Statistics, and Physics C (both Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism);
- Expedited visas and a path to citizenship for foreigners in STEM and medical fields, as well as entrepreneurs who can demonstrate viable business plans by attracting US funding sources;
- Asylum and a path to citizenship for freedom-loving refugees from Hong Kong who wish to come to the US. The UK is already doing this, why can’t the US do this for the stars-and-stripes flying citizens of Hong Kong?
- For businesses, immediate expensing of all R&D and investments.
Benefits
We believe the platform planks above will address serious military, scientific, and economic threats to the nation; re-affirm the US as a beacon of liberty to the rest of the world; and supercharge the creation of new technologies and business formation. They underline the concern of your early supporter (by her primary attacks on Ted Cruz), Ms. Strassel, that you communicate a “positive vision for the future.” But more than that, you must inspire the nation if you want to win.
Respectfully,
Richard Schulman
Editor, Founders Broadsheet
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