... somehow "technical" -- connected to concepts that ordinary Americans have come to view as too complicated.
The sort of simple and clear statements I believe are most effective are more like little stories than statements of abstract principle.
The president promises to carry out the laws passed by Congress, whether they like them or not. If a president doesn't like a law, they work with congress to change it. It's a crime for a any American president, or the people who work for them, to end the programs Congress created on their own. That's not how our government works.
Of course, the basic principles stated as narrative is the place you start. And you start there over and over, and over. Start there and then tie it to how those crimes are destroying the economy, and in the process bring it full circle to the original story.
These crimes are destroying the economy. They are putting people out of work by the hundreds of thousands: They
1) Have directly fired tens of thousands of civil service workers and have told us they plan to fire at least 500,000 more.
2) As they Illegally end programs created by laws passed by our Congress, they are putting hundreds of thousands out of work in industries that receive grants or in businesses that count on the programs they are illegally ending -- programs the Americans losing their jobs were right to count on because in America, our presidents promise to carry out the laws passed by Congress, whether they like those laws or not.
For those who want the instant changes we see in countries run by dictators here in America, be careful what you wish for. Instant change creates chaos that destroys an economy. The fact We the People created a government that makes changes in an orderly way protects us against the type of chaos that causes economies to collapse.
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