Tackling our problems requires both sides’ best ideas to implement agreed-upon solutions. Instead, we have Gridlock on the border and aid to our friends. Reforming entitlements before they devour us is willfully ignored.

While both parties contribute to our inabilities, the new Democratic ticket may bring different thinking. I doubt it, but we have to wait and see. On the other hand, the Republicans will do whatever Donald Trump dictates. It’s best to take up the Republicans first and hold back on the Democrats.

Laying to rest any question Trump now dominates the Republican Party is confirmed by the party’s recent actions. Blocking the compromise Bill to Fund Ukraine, Israel, and our southern border before anyone even read it because Trump wanted the Border issue for the election. At that point, you couldn’t claim you were objecting to something in the bill because no one had seen the finished product. Republicans bowed to Trump’s needs instead of making inroads into the problems. 

The recent changes at the Republican National Committee add to the conclusion of Trump’s dominance. Appointing his daughter-in-law as co-chairman and wholesale replacing long-term employees with Trump loyalists leave no illusions about who the boss is.