I agree, mostly. However, for all personal dislike or Trump, He has done things that 3 previous Republican presidents since 1981, should have done, but didn’t. eg securing the border, withdrawing the reverse discrimination executive order, going after the leftist policies of most universities and colleges. At times he’s been excessive and eradicate in doing these things, but at least, finally, they’ve been done.
The pardoning of Hernandez was a stunner, completely undercutting the war on drugs policy. No possible argument that Hernandez was guilty of a witch hunt. And before that the amazing 28 point Ukraine surrender plan! Moves like this are steadily eroding Trump's support. Is Trump oblivious to this? My MAGA congressman just announced he'll retire next year. He sees the reckoning coming, just like MTG did.
To use JFK as someone who had a coherent ideology reveals a lack of knowledge of the man. The only consistency that defined JFK's view was his uncontrolled lechery. The reason the country rallied behind him then was that most people were patriotic. Today we are confronted by with a public that includes tens of millions of people who hate the country and despise traditional values. Trump derangement syndrome says more about those who have it then it says about Trump. Its a shame that some so-called conservatives feel that they have to say something negative about Trump to show they are discerning people. To me they do not show any discernment; instead all they exhibit is a lack of intellectual honesty. To hold JFK as a model of any political consistency is laughable. Not to appreciate what Trump is up against from a hostile press and a nihilistic intellectual class shows a fundamental lack of understanding of today's politics.
"To use JFK as someone who had a coherent ideology..." Not seeing where I said JFK had a coherent ideology, or any ideology in particular. What I said was that he had some seriousness to him. Perhaps this came from his having been in WWII; not entirely sure.
"To hold JFK as a model of any political consistency is laughable." Maybe so; I don't need to decide, since I never said he was a model of political consistency. I didn't say anything at all about his politics, with which I mostly disagreed, although like him I was for tax cuts.
"Not to appreciate what Trump is up against from a hostile press and a nihilistic intellectual class shows a fundamental lack of understanding of today's politics."
Only I have appreciated it many, many times, including in this post: "Don’t get me wrong. If Trump were a Democrat, the MSM would be all over itself finding ways to praise, or at the minimum accommodate itself to, Trump for his 'pragmatism.'" I've poured acid over the dishonest press and our phony and often stupid "intellectual" class dozens of times.
Yes. Its not a plan or a policy. Or a strategy. Its just what Trump thinks on a specific day at a specific moment. Usually because of something he saw on Fox News.
Excellent. If anything, I'm more worried than you are, been a Cassandra on this term since the cascade of bonehead appointments at its outset, and his daily outpouring of caps-lock billingsgate and, not to put too fine a on it, lies, is threatening to eclipse the several and important good things he has done and is still trying to do. I have a high degree of confidence that his behavior has erased the paper-thin electoral advantage the GOP holds during a time when the insanity of the Democratic party should mean halcyon days for conservatives and across-the-board election success. Frankly . . . for the sake of our cause (i.e., common sense, that which is right, etc.), he needs to go now.
I agree with every word. I am still glad that Harris lost. The Democrats are extremely dangerous and getting more so. Which is why Trump's behavior is so upsetting. He's practically begging the country to elect the first reasonably normal Democrat that shows up. Beyond the politics of it you are right. His only guiding principle is who is nice to him and what enters his mind at a given moment. There is no constinency because there is no coherence. It would be a stretch to call him hypocritical because a hypocrite has abandoned principles that Trump doesn't seem to even have. Its such a shame because this is a moment when someone like Reagan could really change the political equation given the ever growing radicalism of the Democrats. But its not to be. I am done defending Trump. If he happens to do something I like, I will acknowledge it without any expectation that it represents an actual policy. Instead the roulette wheel came up red.
I agree, mostly. However, for all personal dislike or Trump, He has done things that 3 previous Republican presidents since 1981, should have done, but didn’t. eg securing the border, withdrawing the reverse discrimination executive order, going after the leftist policies of most universities and colleges. At times he’s been excessive and eradicate in doing these things, but at least, finally, they’ve been done.
The pardoning of Hernandez was a stunner, completely undercutting the war on drugs policy. No possible argument that Hernandez was guilty of a witch hunt. And before that the amazing 28 point Ukraine surrender plan! Moves like this are steadily eroding Trump's support. Is Trump oblivious to this? My MAGA congressman just announced he'll retire next year. He sees the reckoning coming, just like MTG did.
To use JFK as someone who had a coherent ideology reveals a lack of knowledge of the man. The only consistency that defined JFK's view was his uncontrolled lechery. The reason the country rallied behind him then was that most people were patriotic. Today we are confronted by with a public that includes tens of millions of people who hate the country and despise traditional values. Trump derangement syndrome says more about those who have it then it says about Trump. Its a shame that some so-called conservatives feel that they have to say something negative about Trump to show they are discerning people. To me they do not show any discernment; instead all they exhibit is a lack of intellectual honesty. To hold JFK as a model of any political consistency is laughable. Not to appreciate what Trump is up against from a hostile press and a nihilistic intellectual class shows a fundamental lack of understanding of today's politics.
"To use JFK as someone who had a coherent ideology..." Not seeing where I said JFK had a coherent ideology, or any ideology in particular. What I said was that he had some seriousness to him. Perhaps this came from his having been in WWII; not entirely sure.
"To hold JFK as a model of any political consistency is laughable." Maybe so; I don't need to decide, since I never said he was a model of political consistency. I didn't say anything at all about his politics, with which I mostly disagreed, although like him I was for tax cuts.
"Not to appreciate what Trump is up against from a hostile press and a nihilistic intellectual class shows a fundamental lack of understanding of today's politics."
Only I have appreciated it many, many times, including in this post: "Don’t get me wrong. If Trump were a Democrat, the MSM would be all over itself finding ways to praise, or at the minimum accommodate itself to, Trump for his 'pragmatism.'" I've poured acid over the dishonest press and our phony and often stupid "intellectual" class dozens of times.
"Where's the plot?
Trump's presidency often seems less conservative or even pragmatic than just random"
That's because Donald Trump is a Moderate Republican. Think Dwight David Eisenhower.
Eisenhower's administration did not seem random. This has nothing to do with political orientation as Bill clearly points out. Its total incoherence.
My point is so many people call Donald Trump Conservative/Right Wing. He is a CENTER/Right Republican.
"Its total incoherence"
How About, he try's something, if it doesn't work try's something else? Incoherence would imply No Goal.
There is no goal except "Make America great again ". Except thats not a goal its a slogan.
Is It just a slogan?
Yes. Its not a plan or a policy. Or a strategy. Its just what Trump thinks on a specific day at a specific moment. Usually because of something he saw on Fox News.
And ONLY for 10 years.
Excellent. If anything, I'm more worried than you are, been a Cassandra on this term since the cascade of bonehead appointments at its outset, and his daily outpouring of caps-lock billingsgate and, not to put too fine a on it, lies, is threatening to eclipse the several and important good things he has done and is still trying to do. I have a high degree of confidence that his behavior has erased the paper-thin electoral advantage the GOP holds during a time when the insanity of the Democratic party should mean halcyon days for conservatives and across-the-board election success. Frankly . . . for the sake of our cause (i.e., common sense, that which is right, etc.), he needs to go now.
I agree with every word. I am still glad that Harris lost. The Democrats are extremely dangerous and getting more so. Which is why Trump's behavior is so upsetting. He's practically begging the country to elect the first reasonably normal Democrat that shows up. Beyond the politics of it you are right. His only guiding principle is who is nice to him and what enters his mind at a given moment. There is no constinency because there is no coherence. It would be a stretch to call him hypocritical because a hypocrite has abandoned principles that Trump doesn't seem to even have. Its such a shame because this is a moment when someone like Reagan could really change the political equation given the ever growing radicalism of the Democrats. But its not to be. I am done defending Trump. If he happens to do something I like, I will acknowledge it without any expectation that it represents an actual policy. Instead the roulette wheel came up red.