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The Difference Donald Trump Made [1]

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Date: 2024-08-04  

Ever think a single person cannot make a significant difference in the world? Well, think about this:

Thousands of people who were alive in 2016 are no longer with us today simply because Donald Trump was president from January 20, 2017, until January 20, 2021. According to the executive summary of the Lancet Report on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era:

“… His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care. His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection (the people who were killed and injured on January 6 at the Capitol). … He ordered the mass detention of immigrants in hazardous conditions (remember the children in cages, separated from their parents?); and promulgated regulations that reduce access to abortion and contraception in the USA and globally. Although his effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, he weakened its coverage and increased the number of uninsured people by 2 to 3 million, even before the mass dislocation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has accelerated the privatisation of government health programmes. Trump's hostility to environmental regulations has already worsened pollution—resulting in more than 22 000 extra deaths in 2019 alone—hastened global warming, and despoiled national monuments and lands sacred to Native people. Disdain for science and cuts to global health programmes and public health agencies impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths (400,000+ in the United States), and imperiled advances against HIV and other diseases. … ”

If you think a single person cannot make a significant difference in the world, think again.

*Bolding and parenthetical comments are mine

The Lancet Commission on public policy and health in the Trump era

David U Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, Rebecca Cooney, Martin McKee, Richard Horton

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