OPINION:
On the first night of the Republican National Convention, the GOP featured a group of everyday Americans who spoke to the audience about how difficult life has gotten for them under the Biden administration. They cited rising housing costs, inflation and rising crime (thanks to the open border). To them, the American dream seems to be slipping away.
If the GOP is searching for one unifying message to unite not just the political right but also large swaths of the center and left, it should be “Survive ’Til ’25,” when the American people will have relief from the past four years starting on Day One of the freshly inaugurated Trump administration.
Is there a more powerful metaphor to illustrate this slogan than Donald Trump, fresh from an assassination attempt, triumphantly walking into the Milwaukee arena with a bandaged right ear while Lee Greenwood sang his signature song, “Proud to Be an American”?
In politics, timing is everything. And someone in the Trump campaign needs to step up and make the case for a late campaign pivot from the stale MAGA slogan over to the far more relevant “Survive ’Til ’25.”
LUANA DUNN
Medford, New York
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