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Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears
The Atlantic ^ | August 2,2017 | David A. Graham

Posted on 08/02/2017 9:46:46 AM PDT by Hojczyk

“Let me put it this way,” the secretary of housing and urban development told the Washington Examiner. “I'm glad that Trump is drawing all the fire so I can get stuff done.”

Meanwhile, Trump continues to make preposterous claims. His assertion, at the six-month mark of his presidency last month, that he’d signed more bills than any other president over that stretch earned a snarky rejoinder even from The New York Times. But that is small consolation for progressive environmentalists, public-lands advocates, LGBT activists, and criminal-justice reformers. The list of accomplishments fall short of what Trump promised, but many of them are still quite consequential, with effects to be felt for decades to come. That’s one reason this sort of devil’s advocate exercise is important, although when I tried it in January it was not well received (except by the White House).

Still, in the spirit of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who intends to establish a “red-team blue-team” exercise to investigate whether climate change is actually happening, let’s consider the Trump administration’s accomplishments. Spoiler alert: like climate change, they’re real.

One of the two biggest victories has come on border security, which was one of Trump’s top campaign priorities. Border crossings have already plummeted, suggesting that rhetoric making it clear to immigrants that they are not welcome is effective in its own right. Customs and Border Protections report that apprehensions of unauthorized people are down nearly 20 percent from the same time in 2016. (Trump continues to radically exaggerate these figures, though.) This decline has occurred despite Trump being foiled on his actual policy proposals at the border. Construction hasn’t begun on his border wall yet, and federal courts have repeatedly smacked down his Muslim travel ban.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: maga; morewinning
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1 posted on 08/02/2017 9:46:46 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

The chaos, legislative fumbling, and legal jeopardy should not obscure the ways that the administration is remaking federal policy in consequential ways.

This article is pretty good...the author maybe sounding the alarm..

Maybe he read Art of the Deal

It will take a couple of years but the press only cares about today...fools all


2 posted on 08/02/2017 9:49:25 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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If firing Mueller would cause a huge mess, how about an end run around him?

Have Sessions appoint Special Counsel Larry Klayman to investigate the Hillary scandals, Comey and deep state leaks, Awan espionage and Seth Rich murder. Give him broad leeway to investigate deep state conspiracies against the President, which are attacks on our Constitution, and those will lead to an investigation of the Mueller/Comey axis and the Mueller investigation itself. Check mate!


3 posted on 08/02/2017 9:50:12 AM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: Hojczyk
"... earned a snarky rejoinder even from The New York Times..."

What a hoot.

4 posted on 08/02/2017 9:50:59 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Hojczyk
"The list of accomplishments fall (sic) short....." When I detect semi-illiteracy I stop reading.
5 posted on 08/02/2017 9:51:53 AM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Hojczyk

Trump could and should have done a great deal more in MAGA.

If it were not for the Democrats AND Republicans opposing him at every turn - he could have done tremendous things.


6 posted on 08/02/2017 9:54:06 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Hojczyk

He has LOWERED the US debt.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/30/serious-winning-president-trump-has-actually-lowered-the-national-debt/


7 posted on 08/02/2017 10:00:27 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Defiant

Trump is at 38% in Rasmussen l think it’s because he hasn’t fought back Rosenstein Mueller nothing done about either. tweets don’t do it. Threats without action are worthless.


8 posted on 08/02/2017 10:04:37 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: clintonh8r

the list falls, doesn’t it? good catch.


9 posted on 08/02/2017 10:09:36 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: Hojczyk
Yep, this has been talked about by several FReepers, including yours truly. Trump is a master at misdirection.

Watch the shiny thing in the left hand (Russia!!!) while the right does its thing under the cape. Keep your eye on the beautiful assistant (Sessions? Scaramucci? Pick a person-of-the-week) while the real work gets done behind the scenes.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at the Trump and Putin meeting.

Putin: "You know we didn't hack you, right?"

Trump: "Of course not. Thanks for helping with settling out Syria. By the way, should we give those fools in the press another rabbit to chase?"

10 posted on 08/02/2017 10:10:05 AM PDT by wbill
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federal courts have repeatedly smacked down his Muslim travel ban.

Bias, means I don't click and read the rest of the story.

11 posted on 08/02/2017 10:10:22 AM PDT by RedWing9 (Jesus Rocks Zero Sucks)
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To: Defiant
Have Sessions appoint Special Counsel Larry Klayman to investigate the Hillary scandals, Comey and deep state leaks, Awan espionage and Seth Rich murder. Give him broad leeway to investigate deep state conspiracies against the President, which are attacks on our Constitution, and those will lead to an investigation of the Mueller/Comey axis and the Mueller investigation itself. Check mate!

It's the stunt that the Clinton gang pulled with Mueller.

Right back at them.

Add Sekulow to the "unbiased investigator" list.

12 posted on 08/02/2017 10:17:13 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: gibsonguy

Sounds like you’re one who still believes polls.


13 posted on 08/02/2017 10:20:25 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Hojczyk

That’s one thing all this Russia, Russia, Russia hysteria has been good for.


14 posted on 08/02/2017 10:22:04 AM PDT by McGruff (From now on call it McCaincare)
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To: clintonh8r

I do believe that grammar is correct.
I don’t like the article either, but validate your position before you post.


15 posted on 08/02/2017 10:25:23 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

The list is the subject, not the accomplishments. Therefore, the verb corresponds with the singular noun “list” not the plural noun, “accomplishments.”


16 posted on 08/02/2017 10:37:20 AM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Hojczyk
Gee, I wonder why....

Maybe because the white noise from the Establishment Media is overshadowing things?

17 posted on 08/02/2017 10:52:35 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: gibsonguy

I think it’s disappointment by a few of his supporters, those who don’t read or follow the news as much, and just see that there’s been no repeal of Obamacare and that he is just constantly under siege. They are frontrunners, and Trump, while he is accomplishing quite a bit, cannot be protrayed as winning. Senate Republicans kept him from having a great win, in part for that reason. They don’t want him to be popular, so they can continue to oppose him.

Even Rasmussen underpolls Trump’s support, but if it is really at 44 or so, it is because some people are upset he hasn’t yet achieved some key goals. His base is about 44, then there are liberal Republicans whose support is shallow and they are the 5-10 percent who sway with the winds. He has done great things, but they don’t get reported. He needs his own channel, which would instantly be rated higher than CNN and maybe Fox. That’s what the communications director should be working on.


18 posted on 08/02/2017 11:16:48 AM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: Regulator

Sekulow would be great, too.


19 posted on 08/02/2017 11:17:34 AM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: Hojczyk

Oncirms my “Cheese in the maze”


20 posted on 08/02/2017 11:19:49 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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