The 2020 presidential election is likely to be decided on what voters think about President Donald Trump.
Voters who don't like the president based on his personality, and little else, may want to consider what a Joe Biden presidency and a potential Democratic Senate and House might wreak havoc on.
For example:
* A Senate that could eliminate the filibuster, allowing most major decisions in Congress to be decided by a majority vote. Such a decision would allow Democrats to pack the Supreme Court, add Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico as states, and engage in all manner of policy shenanigans in an effort to ensure we have a one-party country. Recall that this is not idle speculation; this is something many Democrats have declared they will do.
* Democrats don't support Biden's expansion of the courts-weakened Affordable Care Act (ACA), though they're going along with it if it will elect him. They, as did former President Barack Obama when he signed the ACA into law, believe universal health care is the panacea. How will Biden, if elected, be able to hold back the far-left majority of his party, which wants to enact a system that would end private insurance and throw many thousands out of work to boot?
* An administration's foreign policy led by the man former Obama defense secretary Robert Gates said has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Remember that same man was vice president when Russia annexed the Crimea, when a Middle East red line was drawn and abandoned, when the president referred to the Islamic State as the "JV team," when four diplomats died without support in Benghazi, Libya, when the U.S. signed a one-sided Iran nuclear agreement and when the administration joined the Paris climate accord that experts agreed would cause a negligible change in U.S. climate.
* The U.S. debt has risen dramatically over the past half year as Trump and Congress have sent money to Americans affected by the coronavirus, to businesses hit hard by shutdowns and to corporations that employ millions to help them stay afloat. The increasing debt is unsustainable for the country's long-term health, but Democrats are eyeing plans - such as free college, student debt forgiveness, universal health care, universal pre-kindergarten, slave reparations and a Green New Deal that alone is expected to cost $51 million to $93 million over the next decade - that would skyrocket such debt and cripple the country perhaps forever.
* Biden will tell anyone who will listen that Trump is all but responsible for the 220,000-plus U.S. deaths from the coronavirus, but the former vice president and the administration he was a part of did not handle things well when a much less potent swine flu threatened the country in 2009. His former chief of staff said the administration did "every possible thing wrong" and admitted it was "purely a fortuity that this [wasn't] one of the great mass casualty events in American history." The staff member now says his quotes were taken out of context, but he didn't say that when they were reported in 2019. That administration also left the Strategic National Stockpile of N-95 respirator masks in dangerously short supply, a fact-checked claim rated "true" by left-leaning USA Today.
* Facebook and Twitter, among other social media platforms, have demonstrated unquestionable bias against conservatives and Republicans, especially over the last four years. Google, the internet search engine whose bias can be seen daily in search results, is now being sued by the U.S. Justice Department for antitrust violations. Without a Republican president or Republican majority in at least one house of Congress, who will hold these platforms' feet to the fire and keep them from giving the public a one-sided view of what is transpiring in America?
* The political left fomented and praised violence in many major U.S. cities this year following the death of suspect George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. Many of its fellow travelers supported and continued to support the defunding of police departments after the incident. How far would the perpetrators of such violence, encouraged by a Democrat president and congressional majority, go to ensure they get their way?
* Voters who believe they would be getting a politician in Biden who is 180 degrees from Trump will have to overlook a 47-year record in Washington without major legislative triumphs, a man with a credible sexual assault charge made against him and numerous instances of inappropriate touching, a man who has falsified or embellished his records, his speeches and his background, a man who increasingly appears to have used his public position to help family members, and a man whose gaffes and lack of energy on the campaign trail raise the specter of a President Kamala Harris, who was recently named the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate.