Trump’s First Platform Plank

By declaring against the Biden inflation the 45th president aims high and embraces a challenge that could stabilize our economy for generations.

AP/Barry Thumma, file
The basis of monetary value at the U.S. Depository at Fort Knox, September 24, 1974. AP/Barry Thumma, file

“Defeat Inflation” are the first two words in the table of contents of the draft GOP platform out today. It’s too early for an endorsement but what that says to us is that President Trump is putting a priority on what we have argued is the most important task before the voters — restoring sound money and abandoning the system of fiat currency that has saddled our government with debt and debased the value of the dollar.

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