Politics

As for the long term, candidates should enthusiastically address the need to restore sanity and good government to the country after Trump is gone.

I’d like to see people campaign on something along the lines of a 10-point plan. And my first draft is something like this:

1. Restore the rule of law. This includes rebuilding a devastated and defiled Justice Department, prosecuting the rampant law-breaking of the Trump era, and expanding the Supreme Court.
2. Stop mass deportations. That includes defunding ICE, closing concentration camps, restoring temporary protected status, respecting asylum claims, ending to the harassment of people on visas, and welcoming more international students.
3. Revive the civil service. That means hiring back tens of thousands of workers who were driven out, undoing organizational changes, reestablishing the tradition of a nonpartisan bureaucracy.
4. Restart international aid.
5. Invert Trump’s tax changes, to increase taxes on the rich and lower them on the middle class.
6. Restart the Green New Deal and restore environmental protections.
7. Condition Israeli aid on humane treatment of Palestinians.
8. Restore the role of science in government decision-making.
9. Reassert support for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
10. Support human rights for all, including trans rights.

Is it too early to start talking about how to roll back Trumpism? What do you think of my list? And what did I leave out? Please discuss in comments.