“His chief promises were that he would build the wall, defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn’t done any of those things,” Carlson said, adding that those goals were probably lost causes. Trump, he said, doesn’t understand the system, and his own agencies don’t support him.
“He knows very little about the legislative process, hasn’t learned anything, hasn’t surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn’t done all the things you need to do, so it’s mostly his fault that he hasn’t achieved those things,” he added.
You mean, "Trump isn't capable", given Ryan, McCain...etc.
It’s true that Planned Parenthood is still funded.
Trump made a huge error when he appointed Sessions, has been kept off balance by this Special Prosecutor who should have never been appointed if he had chosen an appropriate Attorney General, had no idea of the depth of the resistance of the entrenched bureaucracy and due to political inexperience has not been able to secure full control of agencies under executive control after two years. The antipathy of McCain prevented the repeal of Obamacare and his inability to control 20-30 Republican House members including Ryan prevented wall construction. Nobody likes the bragging. The relentless hatred in the Media has had a detrimental effect as well. Yet when considering the challenges he faced after Obama, the prospect that the amoral thief Hillary Clinton could have been President and the fact that if not for Trump, the globalists would be dismantling my country, still glad to have voted for him and continue to support him. Greatest fear is that the muddled middle that determines election outcomes in the US may not give him the support he needs to be reelected.
Ok, Tuck, WHERE are you going to come up with enough semi-competent people to replace 90% (at least) of the Federal bureaucracy (janitors and such can probably stay), WHO would you have surrounding Trump “that can get it (more of Trump’s agenda) done” (in Congress) and actually want to, and... please specify just HOW you would accomplish such?
Maybe like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_sBNX9dP-M
More seriously — I’m not advocating that last! — what I’m getting at is that the GOPe’s agenda is clearly not Trump’s agenda. So, is there specific arm twisting Trump could do, or are there substantive threats that Trump could make, that YOU know he has not employed? Or, if “horse trading” and negotiation is the key, what specific compromises or trades not already tried would work, and not peel off substantial numbers of Trump supporters?
The ONE issue where it may be that Trump “blew it” was the ObamaCare repeal: Trump may have triggered McCain’s bitterness unwittingly. Trump gets so much hate and scorn all the time, without it seeming to really embitter him, that it may not have occurred to Trump that swinging back at McCain would so enrage McCain that the Senator would put his desire for revenge over his own prior position, not to mention the good of the country.
OTOH, the Pubs could have re-voted on ObamaCare after McCain was gone, and have not. That makes me think McCain’s no vote on repeal was simply the vote no one had to take back to their voters. Lacking it, some other squish Senator would have been found: Probably Flake, or Murkowski.
The main point is, Tuck ol’ boy, without very specific positive recommendations that would actually work, you are in this instance merely a gasbag.