Yeah, if only we had a Trump-like President from 2016 to 2020 to destroy that deep state stuff before the Pandemic, so that the 2020 President couldn’t lock down the country and give the democrats 2 trillion dollars of spending.
It amazes me that people are willing to vote for a guy who will be a lame duck and accountable to no-one, who proved when he actually had to get people to vote for him again that he was not going to do half of what he promised.
Today is a great day to remember one of many such promises. Today is the anniversary of the illegal DACA program. Trump promised to get rid of this program “immediately”. He did not. And in fact, at some point, he actually tried to work with Democrats to overcome republican opposition and actually make DACA the law of the land.
“We’re working out the legal complexities right now, but I’m going to be signing a very major immigration bill as an executive order, which the Supreme Court now, because of the DACA decision, has given me the power to do that,”
They’re going to be part of a much bigger bill on immigration. It’s going to be a very big bill, a very good bill, and merit-based bill and it will include DACA, and I think people are going to be very happy.”
I know some will argue that while Trump did not get rid of the deep state, or build much of a wall, or do a bunch of other things, it was because he could NOT do those things, because there was “too much opposition”. He could not get rid of the deep state, because the deep state was just too strong for him. He couldn’t get things done because of the Mueller investigation. Because he did not have enough support in congress. Because too many of his cabinet officials did not do what he told them to do.
This all may be good. But I have to wonder why anybody would support a President who was elected to do all these things, and was incapable of doing them because of opposition. Why re-elect failure? What makes you think he will be able to do ANYTHING in 2024 that he was incapable of doing in 2017?
Why did he appoint so many horrible people? Why didn’t he fire Comey on day 1? Why didn’t he shut down the Mueller investigation, which he had the power to do? Why didn’t he withdraw the Sessions appointment once Sessions said he would recuse? How did John Bolton end up in the administration?
We can always be happy that Trump and the republicans in the house and senate passed the 2017 tax bill, that Trump used the Federalist list for his supreme court justices, and that Trump did a bunch of things that ANY republican president would do that helped the economy.
But in 2020, it would have been nice to have a president who cracked down on protesters, especially the ones who took over parts of a state and declared their own country, or the group that was assaulting a federal courthouse for 3 months. Or a president who didn’t try to lock down the country, give Fauci control over our pandemic response, or push for trillions in spending for it.
Or maybe just a president who didn’t, after losing an election, throw away 2 senate seats because he had a hissy fit, and join the democrats promising more free money to people, which eventually was part of the democrats trillion-dollar inflation-causing bill which would NOT have passed if just ONE of the two georgia senators had won their election.
Aww, Did your Never Trumper feelings get hurt?
Almost all of these questions you are struggling with have been fully run to ground here on FR.
Every one of them has a satisfactory explanation.
Good luck on your quest for truth. I would approach it from the perspective of an engineering problem. Take each of your questions and work on them individually, until you get them all straightened out. Trying to wrap your mind around all that can keep a fellow confused.
Remember, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.