The USA was already on an upward slope when Trump became POTUS and in fact it declined a little prior to the pandemic so his impact was actually negative. So that 57% report feeling better off is more down to Obama than Trump. That you regard certain things as positive is fine, there are many people working behind the scenes for years to achieve agreements and some are bound to have come to fruition on his watch. Of course he claims the credit. He always does.

The things I mentioned are all bad and they were all things that he did. All things you have ignored.

It's not the level of energy production that matters. It's the how it's produced that does, along with how efficiently it is consumed.

Not participating in the Paris accord sends the wrong message around the world. Costing jobs is an emotional response when re-assigning jobs is what is needed and must be done. Doubling fuel costs is probably a good thing in that it will force efficiency. The costs involved in dealing with climate change are much smaller than not dealing with it. Do you wish to risk our extinction?

Try to find your logic as it's gone missing again, although it probably has disappeared for good if indeed it was ever present.

I don't blame Trump for there being racists anywhere. I only see it being more likely that they support him and not Biden, especially the white supremacists, and that he has done nothing to discourage them.

Johnson spoke to Biden today at some length, apparently the first European leader to do so. I bet we don't get a transcript! I would though love to have been a fly on the wall. Let's see if the approach to achieve a deal now gets amended.

In other news a commission of international observers have reported that they saw no reasons to be concerned with the election, saying it met all the high standards associated with the USA.

If Trump really does hope to make a comeback this is not the way to lay the groundwork. He will keep his base, split the Republicans and ensure the Democrats win in 2024 whatever they do in the next 4 years.

As I’ve said I’m not supporting Trump just trying to understand why 70m people voted for him.
Do I want to risk extinction? That’s quite a leap of logic.

His base worship him. Some literally. Others hate anything that they feel might lead to "socialism" and Trump exploits that. That there are 2 Americas is obvious. There has been for a very long time. It's something you witness wherever you travel there. In the past that has been blurred by a shared sense of progress towards the American dream. Now one half feels threatened by globalisation and the prospect of the USA falling behind China. So the divide has widened and rather than try to heal it Trump has widened it by ignoring the other half.

Making sure both sides are listened to will be Biden's challenge. We all need to wish him luck.

Johnson spoke to Biden today at some length, apparently the first European leader to do so. I bet we don't get a transcript! I would though love to have been a fly on the wall. Let's see if the approach to achieve a deal now gets amended.

In other news a commission of international observers have reported that they saw no reasons to be concerned with the election, saying it met all the high standards associated with the USA.

If Trump really does hope to make a comeback this is not the way to lay the groundwork. He will keep his base, split the Republicans and ensure the Democrats win in 2024 whatever they do in the next 4 years.