The Post supports Donald Trump as president – ​​a clear decision for a better future

Voters have a great responsibility in this election – one of the most consequential in the history of this great nation.

The decision will reverberate for decades and determine which of two very different paths Americans will take going forward.

We must choose the following:

• A secure border and a sensible immigration system.
• Safer cities and support for law and order.
• A thriving economy with low taxes and low regulation for all – driven by energy policies that support, not penalize, industry and households.
• Common-sense policies that restore parents' power to decide what's best for their children when it comes to school choice, gender surgery, and trans athletes in women's sports.
• An America respected on the world stage – feared by our enemies and trusted by our allies.

Only one candidate can credibly claim to lead us there.

Donald Trump.

If history is anything to go by, the track records of the last two governments provide a clearly comparable record.

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan's famous quote, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”: Voters should ask themselves whether they were better off under Trump or under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

His opponents focus on how the Trump administration was characterized by a relentless soap opera of drama and chaos, which it largely fueled.

And yes, many find it offensive – and we'll be fair: it can be ridiculously exaggerated.

But before COVID wreaked havoc around the world, Trump's results in his first term included paychecks growing significantly faster than inflation, the lowest unemployment in 50 years, a secure border and peace abroad.

In 2021, when Biden-Harris took power, the country took a sharp left turn with catastrophic consequences.

In these nearly four years, inflation has rocked Americans, millions of migrants have crossed the border illegally, some cities have been taken over by gangs and crime, radical and ridiculous culture wars over DEI and gender identity have pitted neighbor against neighbor.

Let us not forget that the world overshadowing all this is on the brink of widespread war.

Today, Trump demonstrates the same strength and drive as he did in 2016, despite the unprecedented and shameful weaponization of the justice system against him, two assassination attempts, and the all-too-familiar constant barrage of hysterical media attacks on him.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has been rightly criticized as an underqualified political lightweight for refusing to answer almost any question about the past four years or reveal detailed future policy plans.

It could also be true that she doesn't want the American people to know the full extent of her radical plans because that would scare them away.

In fact, any close examination of her record shows that she is that of a progressive from San Francisco.

If she wins, Harris will not only co-opt Bidenism but also accelerate the advancing hurricane sweeping through the fabric of American society.

Voters this fall will decide whether our country's future is one of prosperity, security, freedom, opportunity and innovation.

Or remains with the ruinous largesse of big government, the deliberately divisive politics, the appeasement and the stagnation.

Trump wants to free companies from onerous regulations and lower taxes for workers.

Harris would risk worsening inflation with more government “gifts” to special interests—paid for with inflation-fueling debt or job-destroying taxes.

Trump wants to lift restrictions on oil and gas production and use “drill, baby, drill” to boost America's energy independence and make the world less dependent on the West, which hates Russia and Iran.

Harris co-sponsored the radical Green New Deal in the Senate, which wasted billions of dollars down the drain, and boasted on her campaign website about her war on Big Oil.

Trump treated Iran like the terror sponsor it is – withdrawing from the sham nuclear deal, tightening sanctions and eliminating commander-in-chief Qassem Soleimani.

Meanwhile, Biden and Harris have repeatedly appeased the ayatollahs while bringing Israel to its knees and emboldening Tehran and its proxies.

The burden is heavy on our shoulders this November.

But Trump and Harris want to take us down very different paths – in a way that makes the choice plain and simple but vital.

Donald Trump is the right choice.