Harrop: Next president will have to go back to move forward

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Like all candidates, Democrats focus their campaigns on what they will do if elected. Progressives often accuse Joe Biden in particular of wanting to take America back to the Barack Obama years. And it’s true that Biden often portrays his candidacy as a restoration of the era in which he served as Obama’s vice president.

But that’s not a bad stance for any of the Democrats to take. They and their followers must understand that to move forward, America must first move back. The next president must reverse much of the damage President Trump has wrought. The work will be considerable.

We must rejoin our Western allies in honoring international agreements that still make sense. That would include the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. It reduced sanctions on that country in return for its freezing its nuclear program. Not perfect, but it was working.

After Trump broke the agreement, Iran said it was free to develop nuclear weapons. A nuclear-armed Iran would be a nightmare.

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https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/harrop-next-president-will-have-to-go-back-to-move-forward/

[Zoonart]

1. This is what I have been telling folks for months.

The next four years are going to be triage, and amputations. Massive clean up and re-staffing.
I think that candidates that re promising the moon in the way of new policy are setting themselves up for failure.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. What it is going to take to put just the basics back in place is overwhelming.

[krissey]

3. Interesting visual. Obama had to slam on the breaks, hard ass, to avoid death. Lol. He did it.

Then he started chuggin up the hill.

This time, the Republicans are making us back up, to take the other road. It was the opposite direct. I like this. Thanks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I've been saying this all along.

It will take a full presidential term just to clean up Trump's mess and put the federal government back together. Only after that's been done will there be any chance to move forward. You can't remodel your house right after it's been burned almost to the ground; you have to hire a carpenter to repair and rebuild it first.

[KT2000]

5. that is exactly why I support Biden

He knows what has been torn apart and how to put it back together.

[woodsprite]

6. That's why I've been for Biden since the start as well.

Biden and Harris, Klobuchar, or Abrams - Biden to stem the bleeding and to clean up the mess. He can impart on the VP his foreign policy experience, reconnecting with our allies, and then whomever is VP will have 8 years to put us in forward gear again.